On Saturday, January 7, 2017 at 7:59:01 PM UTC-5, Steve D'Aprano wrote: > On Sun, 8 Jan 2017 08:40 am, CM wrote: > > > So what's going on here? Why isn't a string with the content 'match' equal > > to another string with the content 'match'? > > You don't know that the content is 'match'. All you know is that when > printed, it *looks like* 'match'. > > Hint: > > s = 'match ' > print 'match', s # they look the same > print 'match' == s # but they aren't the same > > > Start by printing repr(candidate_text) and see what you really have.
Yes, that did it. The repr of that one was, in fact: u'match /r' Thanks, that did it. Do you happen to know why that /r was appended to the unicode object in this case? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
