Re: simple string backspace question

2007-08-01 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
"John Machin" wrote: > Point (2): Backspace??? YAGNI --- backspace hasn't been much use for > anything (except when typing text) since the days when in order to get > a bold letter (say X) on a character impact printer, one would > transmit X\bX\bX ... ooh! Ugly! Almost as bad as, on a gol

Re: simple string backspace question

2007-07-31 Thread John Machin
On Jul 31, 10:33 pm, Dustan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jul 31, 7:17 am, John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Jul 31, 8:01 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > On 31 srp, 11:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > I have one simple string, backspace character ques

Re: simple string backspace question

2007-07-31 Thread Dustan
On Jul 31, 7:17 am, John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jul 31, 8:01 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > On 31 srp, 11:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I have one simple string, backspace character question.Here is my > > > example: > > > > >>> text="Hello\bworld" > >

Re: simple string backspace question

2007-07-31 Thread John Machin
On Jul 31, 8:01 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 31 srp, 11:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hello, > > > I have one simple string, backspace character question.Here is my > > example: > > > >>> text="Hello\bworld" > > >>> print text > > > "HelloBSworld" > > > Should this character "\b" (backspa

Re: simple string backspace question

2007-07-31 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 31 srp, 12:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lawrence Oluyede) wrote: >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > If you mean on operating system then unfortunately Windows XP. >> >> I don't know for sure but maybe it doesn't support all ASCII escapes >> codes. >> >> Why do you care abo

Re: simple string backspace question

2007-07-31 Thread vedrandekovic
On 31 srp, 12:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lawrence Oluyede) wrote: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you mean on operating system then unfortunately Windows XP. > > I don't know for sure but maybe it doesn't support all ASCII escapes > codes. > > Why do you care about \b anyway :-) ? > > -- > Lawrence

Re: simple string backspace question

2007-07-31 Thread Lawrence Oluyede
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you mean on operating system then unfortunately Windows XP. I don't know for sure but maybe it doesn't support all ASCII escapes codes. Why do you care about \b anyway :-) ? -- Lawrence, oluyede.org - neropercaso.it "It is difficult to get a man to understand so

Re: simple string backspace question

2007-07-31 Thread vedrandekovic
On 31 srp, 11:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I have one simple string, backspace character question.Here is my > example: > > >>> text="Hello\bworld" > >>> print text > > "HelloBSworld" > > Should this character "\b" (backspace) in this text return this: > "Helloworld"? > > Regards, > Ve

Re: simple string backspace question

2007-07-31 Thread Lawrence Oluyede
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> text="Hello\bworld" > >>> print text > "HelloBSworld" > > Should this character "\b" (backspace) in this text return this: > "Helloworld"? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ % python Python 2.5.1 (r251:54869, Apr 18 2007, 22:08:04) [GCC

simple string backspace question

2007-07-31 Thread vedrandekovic
Hello, I have one simple string, backspace character question.Here is my example: >>> text="Hello\bworld" >>> print text "HelloBSworld" Should this character "\b" (backspace) in this text return this: "Helloworld"? Regards, Vedran -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list