On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 08:28:05 -0700, pycraze wrote: > In the above code what does " > 000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000 " signify ? Which form of > representation is this ?
\nnn is the octal representation of a byte. The snippet you've shown contains mostly zero bytes: In [10]: a = '\000' In [11]: a Out[11]: '\x00' In [12]: ord(a) Out[12]: 0 Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list