On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 1:26 AM, Tim Chase <python.l...@tim.thechases.com> wrote: > On 2014-11-26 15:45, Jussi Piitulainen wrote: >> Tim Chase writes: >> > bash$ echo // hello >> > hello >> >> Where did the // go? > > The bad-copy-and-paste gremlins ate them :-o > > Good catch. :) >
I was searching the ol' memory banks, trying to figure out if there was some way to tell the internal 'echo' command to use slash instead of dash (maybe for DOS/Windows people??), in which case that would be parsed as "echo -- hello" and would indeed simply echo "hello". ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
