TP wrote: > So, the python print command *can* interpret these 4-character as a single > character. It would be odd if there were no possibility to do the same > thing when the characters are (i) stored in a python variable
Sorry, it works when using variables. Try for example: col="[0;31m" esc="\033" colreset="[0m" print esc + col + "foobar" + esc + colreset -- TP (Tribulations Parallèles) "Allez, Monsieur, allez, et la foi vous viendra." (D'Alembert). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
