Re: strange behaviour of colon within string

2009-10-19 Thread Dave Angel
khany wrote: On 19 Oct, 14:44, StarWing wrote: On Oct 19, 9:15 pm, khany wrote: On 19 Oct, 13:44, khany wrote: however it fails to create the string UNLESS i remove the colon (:) in the http section. i tried to substitute it with chr(58) but it errors the same

Re: strange behaviour of colon within string

2009-10-19 Thread khany
On 19 Oct, 14:44, StarWing wrote: > On Oct 19, 9:15 pm, khany wrote: > > > > > > > On 19 Oct, 13:44, khany wrote: > > > > hello all, > > > > i am relatively new to python and i am trying to convert a php app i > > > have over to it using googleapps. > > > > anyway here is the problem. i poll eba

Re: strange behaviour of colon within string

2009-10-19 Thread StarWing
On Oct 19, 9:15 pm, khany wrote: > On 19 Oct, 13:44, khany wrote: > > > hello all, > > > i am relatively new to python and i am trying to convert a php app i > > have over to it using googleapps. > > > anyway here is the problem. i poll ebay API which has in its XML " > xml version="1.0" encoding

Re: strange behaviour of colon within string

2009-10-19 Thread khany
On 19 Oct, 13:44, khany wrote: > hello all, > > i am relatively new to python and i am trying to convert a php app i > have over to it using googleapps. > > anyway here is the problem. i poll ebay API which has in its XML " xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> xmlns="http://www.ebay.com/marketplac

Re: strange behaviour of colon within string

2009-10-19 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 05:44 -0700, khany wrote: > i am relatively new to python and i am trying to convert a php app i > have over to it using googleapps. Welcome! > anyway here is the problem. i poll ebay API which has in its XML " xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> xmlns="http://www.ebay.co

Re: strange behaviour of colon within string

2009-10-19 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
khany wrote: > hello all, > > i am relatively new to python and i am trying to convert a php app i > have over to it using googleapps. > > anyway here is the problem. i poll ebay API which has in its XML " xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> xmlns="http://www.ebay.com/marketplace/search/v1/serv

strange behaviour of colon within string

2009-10-19 Thread khany
hello all, i am relatively new to python and i am trying to convert a php app i have over to it using googleapps. anyway here is the problem. i poll ebay API which has in its XML "http://www.ebay.com/marketplace/search/v1/services";> " however it fails to create the string UNLESS i remove