On 8/20/10 1:50 PM, John Nagle wrote:
On 8/20/2010 8:41 AM, Aahz wrote:
In article<4c5eef7f$0$1609$742ec...@news.sonic.net>,
John Nagle<na...@animats.com> wrote:
This looks like code that will do the wrong thing in
Python 2.6 for characters in the range 128-255. Those are
illegal in type "str", but this code is constructing such
values with "chr".
WDYM "illegal"?
Type "str" in Python 2.6 is ASCII, 0..127.
In Python 2.6, type "str" is comprised of bytes 0..255, not ASCII characters.
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