Thanks, after I looked into it I realized that the output order can
change arbitarily. It just seems kind of strange that the first example
is one where your output might not match what the author tells you it
should be - and yet there's no mention of this in the book (at least at
that point.)
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Fred C. Dobbs wrote:
> I feel like an idiot. I'm going thru "Dive Into Python" and running the
> first program - odbchelper.py
>
> My output is "pwd=secret;database=master;uid=sa;server=mpilgrim" which
> has all the substrings reversed from the output documented in the book.
> I've run the download
