On Mar 24, 3:03 pm, pythonnubie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 24, 11:57 am, Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What does the code look like? > > # Random Access > # Demonstrates string indexing > # Michael Dawson - 1/27/03 > > import random > > word = "index" > print "The word is: ", word, "\n" > > high = len(word) > low = -len(word) > for i in range(10): > position = random.randrange(low, high) > print "word[", position, "]\t", word[position] > > raw_input("\n\nPress the enter key to exit.") > > The code is an exerp from a chm file . I am petty sutre I am > nmot getting a char map error from the copy/paste ! it looks > simple enough !
It works fine on on Windows with standard Python 2.5. Something is probably wrong with your ActiveState installation. George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list