On 2017-10-31, Stefan Ram <r...@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Ned Batchelder <n...@nedbatchelder.com> writes: >> Â Â Â def wrapped_join(values, sep): > > Ok, here's a report on me seing non-breaking spaces in > posts in this NG. I have written this report so that you > can see that it's not my newsreader that is converting > something, because there is no newsreader involved.
Yes Ned's post definitely had non-breaking spaces in; it looks like Thunderbird is turning strings of spaces into ' \xa0+ ', presumably because things that expect HTML will squash runs of spaces (even though the post is not HTML...) By the way I would commend 'od -tx1z' to you as it is *far* easier to read: 0012460 20 0a 65 6e 63 61 70 73 75 6c 61 74 65 20 69 74 > .encapsulate it< 0012500 3a 0a 0a 20 c2 a0 c2 a0 c2 a0 20 64 65 66 20 77 >:.. ...... def w< 0012520 72 61 70 70 65 64 5f 6a 6f 69 6e 28 76 61 6c 75 >rapped_join(valu< -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list