On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 01:36:08PM -0800, Warren DeLano wrote: and before that, Sarina had noted:
> > File "<string>", line 1 > > b=3D10 > > ^ > > SyntaxError: unexpected EOF while parsing > > Alter-Error: Aborting on error. Assignment may be incomplete. > > Alter: modified 0 atoms. > > > Sarina, > > I'm not sure where that "3D10" is coming from -- it should simply be the > number 10: > > alter all, b=10 Most likely a mismatch between the two mail programs--yours and Sarina's--in the way they handle "quoted-printable" content transfer encoding (see the headers of the email messages). Some displays of quoted-printable content seem to use "=" as some kind of escape character. Therefore, a literal "=" needs to be escaped itself. As it happens "3D" is the hexadecimal for an ASCII "=". So =3D is the quoted-printable representation of the equals sign in your original. -- Joe
