Sion Arrowsmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And if we didn't say "whitespace", how would we distinguish between > "space characters" meaning " " and "whitespace characters" > meaning " \t\r\n\v"? (OK, has anyone met a "\v" in the wild?)
Not me. But I routinely use a whitespace character you omitted: '\f' (ASCII FF, '\x0C') to separate sections of source code within a file. -- \ "I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate | `\ those who do. And for the people who like country music, | _o__) denigrate means 'put down'." -- Bob Newhart | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
