On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 08:11, bob gailer <bgai...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 8/8/2010 1:57 AM, Richard D. Moores wrote:
>> How were we supposed to know that all the hexes have 2 digits? > > In version 2.6.5 Language Reference 2.4.1 - String literals: > \xhh Character with hex value hh But >>> os.urandom(6) b'\x13\xf1\x138a\xcc' In my Active Python 3.1 docs, Language Ref 2.4.1. String and Bytes literals, I have The same as what you quoted, plus a couple of footnotes: \xhh Character with hex value hh (2,3) That footnote 2, "Unlike in Standard C, at most two hex digits are accepted.", seems necessary; otherwise that \x138a could be seen by my former, byte-ignorant self as a \xhhhh, and puzzled about why I got only 4 bytes, not 6. :) But I never would have thought to have looked in the docs where you did. Dick _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
