On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 15:40:51 -0700, James Stroud wrote: > I'm very curious about what is going on here. I'm sure my curiosity has > something to do with ignorance of some fundamental concept of computer > science (maybe that 8 is just a vertical infinity?): > > py> b = '\xb6' > py> b[0] > '\xb6' > py> b[0][0] > '\xb6' > py> b[0][0][0] > '\xb6' > py> b[0][0][0][0] > '\xb6' > py> b[0][0][0][0][0] > '\xb6' > > > > James
b is a 1 character string. b[0] is a one character string which is the first character of b. Therefore b[0] == b. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
