On Tuesday 16 February 2016 00:05, Veek. M wrote:
> When I do at the interpreter prompt,
> repr( open('/etc/motd', 'rt').read() )
Opening and reading MOTD is a needless distraction from your actual
question. This demonstrates the issue most simply:
# at the inte
On 2/15/2016 8:05 AM, Veek. M wrote:
When I do at the interpreter prompt,
repr( open('/etc/motd', 'rt').read() )
i get # 1 #:
When posting questions here or at Stackoverflow or elsewhere, it is a
really good idea to develop and post a 'minimal, complete,
On Mon, Feb 15, 2016, at 08:05, Veek. M wrote:
> What is happening with # 1 # (repr)?
> repr calls __repr__ which gives you bytes.. why does this result in \\n
When you call a function that returns a string directly in the
interpreter prompt (i.e. without print), it passes the result to repr,
whic
When I do at the interpreter prompt,
repr( open('/etc/motd', 'rt').read() )
i get # 1 #:
"'\\nThe programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free
software;\\nthe exact distribution terms for each program are described
in the\\nindividual files in
