On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 01:19:32 -0700, jmfauth wrote: > What is input() supposed to return?
Whatever you type. >>>> u'a' == 'a' > True This demonstrates that in Python 3.3, u'a' gives a string equal to 'a'. >>>> r1 = input(':') > :a Since you typed the letter a, r1 is the string "a" (a single character). >>>> r2 = input(':') > :u'a' Since you typed four characters, namely lowercase u, single quote, lowercase a, single quote, r2 is the string "u'a'" (four characters). >>>> r1 == r2 > False >>>> type(r1), len(r1) > (<class 'str'>, 1) >>>> type(r2), len(r2) > (<class 'str'>, 4) If you call print(r1) and print(r2), that will show you what they hold. If in doubt, calling print(repr(r1)) will show extra information about the object. > sys.argv? What about it? > > jmf -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list