Ronald Oussoren wrote: > No. Four-character-constants are *not* strings or byte arrays, they are > integer literals.
Well, in Pascal they were character arrays -- it was only when they switched to C that they became ints. Conceptually they're still the same thing. Python isn't C, and doesn't have to be bound by C's limitations. -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+ University of Canterbury, | Carpe post meridiem! | Christchurch, New Zealand | (I'm not a morning person.) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] +--------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com