On Sep 16, 1:10?pm, Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 01:46:34 -0700, GeorgeRXZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: > > > Then Open the Notepad and type the following sentence, and save the > > file and close the notepad. Now reopen the file and you will find out > > that, Notepad is not able to save the following text line. > > > Well you are speed > > > This occurs not only with above sentence but any sentence that has > > > 4 3 3 5 (sequence of characters: Well=4 you=3 are=3 speed=5) > > I tried. I also opened the saved file in SciTE... > And the text WAS there... > > It is Notepad that can not properly render what it, > itself, saved.
C:\Documents and Settings\mensanator\My Documents>type huh.txt Well you are speed Yes, file was saved correctly. But reopening it shows 9 unprintable characters. If I copy those to a new file (huh1.txt): C:\Documents and Settings\mensanator\My Documents>type huh1.txt ????????? But wait...the new file is 20 characters, not 9. 09/16/2007 01:44 PM 18 huh.txt 09/16/2007 01:54 PM 20 huh1.txt C:\Documents and Settings\mensanator\My Documents>dump huh.txt huh.txt: 00000000 5765 6c6c 2079 6f75 2061 7265 2073 7065 Well you are spe 00000010 6564 ed Here's what it's actually doing: C:\Documents and Settings\mensanator\My Documents>dump huh1.txt huh1.txt: 00000000 fffe 5765 6c6c 2079 6f75 2061 7265 2073 .~Well you are s 00000010 7065 6564 peed -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
