Alan G wrote: > '\x14' is the actual non printable charactewrs. If it were printable > you > would see its printed representation, because it isn't Pyhon showsw > you > the hex code as an escaped character but it is the character. >
Thanks for the input. I'm sorry, my question was not clear enough. The problem is that (to stick with the example) '\x14' is not the character 0x14, but a string of length 4. It consists of the characters backslash, 'x', '1' and '4'. (I verified the output of len()). What I want to do is make Python believe that that string of length 4 is actually a string of length 1 that contains character 0x14. Any help on how to achieve that is appreciated. Pieter Lust _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor