Sébastien Boisgérault wrote: > Could anyone explain me how the python string "é" is mapped to > the binary code "\xe9" in my python interpreter ?
in the iso-8859-1 character set, the character é is represented by the code 0xE9 (233 in decimal). there's no mapping going on here; there's only one character in the string. how it appears on your screen depends on how you print it, and what encoding your terminal is using. >>> s = "é" >>> len(s) 1 >>> ord(s) 233 >>> hex(ord(s)) '0xe9' >>> s '\xe9' >>> print repr(s) '\xe9' >>> print s é >>> print chr(233) é </F>
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