On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 8:54 PM, <wxjmfa...@gmail.com> wrote: > This assertions are correct (byte string and unicode). > >>>> sys.version > '2.7.6 (default, Nov 10 2013, 19:24:18) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)]' >>>> assert 'Straße'[4] == 'ß' >>>> assert u'Straße'[4] == u'ß' >>>> > > jmf > > PS Nothing to do with Py2/Py3.
This means that either your source encoding happens to include that character, or you have assertions disabled. It does NOT mean that you can rely on writing this string out to a file and having someone else read it in and understand it the same way. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
