Kent Johnson wrote: <snip> > One way is to paste the string into a program; when Python sees '\x14' it > creates a string of length 1: > > >>> len('\x14') > 1 > > Alternately you can use the 'string_escape' codec to convert the string: > >>> s=r'\x14' > >>> len(s) > 4 > >>> t=s.decode('string_escape') > >>> t > '\x14' > >>> len(t) > 1 > > Kent >
Thanks! That solves my problem. Pieter Lust. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor