On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 7:40 AM Adam Preble <adam.pre...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Saturday, April 18, 2020 at 1:15:35 PM UTC-5, Alexandre Brault wrote: > > >>> def f(): > > ... â â from sys import path, argv ... > > So I figured it out and all but I wanted to ask about the special characters > in that output. I've seen that a few times and never figured out what's going > on and if I need to change how I'm reading these. Or say: > > â â â â â â â â â â â â 12 STORE_FASTâ â â â â â â â â â â â â â 1 (argv > > I don't know if you're seeing all these letter a's. I'm guessing something > goofy with Unicode spaces or something? >
That looks like something got messed up between the various mailing list and newsgroup gateways. I'm not sure exactly what happened, but it's probably been converted into nonbreaking spaces, then encoded in some way, and decoded incorrectly. I'm not sure WHAT the encodings in question would be, but my best guess is that the nonbreaking spaces were encoded UTF-8 (C2 A0), and then decoded in some eight-bit encoding. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
