Re: the print statement

2006-05-08 Thread Tim Roberts
Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, 07 May 2006 00:09:06 GMT, Tim Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> declaimed >the following in comp.lang.python: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> >6) Would it be correct to infer that the print statement is aware of >> >characters beyond the 128 cha

Re: the print statement

2006-05-07 Thread Kent Johnson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thank you. Yes, that post answers most of the questions. I now have a > bit of an understanding of the \xhh pattern. It's still unclear to me, > however, how one can go from the \x92 pattern and arrive at the > apostrophe character. Is \x92 theh apostrophe character i

Re: the print statement

2006-05-06 Thread Terry Reedy
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > bit of an understanding of the \xhh pattern. It's still unclear to me, > however, how one can go from the \x92 pattern and arrive at the > apostrophe character. Is \x92 the apostrophe character in another > character set? If so, whi

Re: the print statement

2006-05-06 Thread mirandacascade
Thank you. Yes, that post answers most of the questions. I now have a bit of an understanding of the \xhh pattern. It's still unclear to me, however, how one can go from the \x92 pattern and arrive at the apostrophe character. Is \x92 theh apostrophe character in another character set? If so,

Re: the print statement

2006-05-06 Thread Tim Roberts
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >O/S: Win2K >Vsn of Python: 2.4 > >Here is copy/paste from interactive window of pythonwin: >... >My questions are: >1) is the 'x' character within the variable y a signal that what >follows is a hex value? Sort of; it is the \x pair that signals this. This is in the Py

Re: the print statement

2006-05-06 Thread Ben Finney
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > My questions are: Mostly answered in the language reference: http://docs.python.org/ref/strings.html> -- \ "Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything | `\ that's even remotely true!" -- Homer, _The Simpsons_ | _o__)