Rene Pijlman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > WENDUM Denis 47.76.11 (agent): > >While testing recursive algoritms dealing with generic lists I stumbled > >on infinite loops which were triggered by the fact that (at least for my > >version of Pyton) characters contain themselves. > > No, strings contain characters. And 'a' is a string consisting of one > character. > > "The items of a string are characters. There is no separate character > type; a character is represented by a string of one item." > http://docs.python.org/ref/types.html > > (One item of what type, one might ask)
Good point. ". . .represented by a string of length one" would be better. -- Mark Jackson - http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~mjackson An information system based on theory isolated from reality is bound to fail. - Mitch Kabay -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
