On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 9:27 AM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 12:13:50 am David Hutto wrote:
>> I see it now. I knew that the u outside ' ' is the coding for the
>> string, but I thought I had to strip it before using it since that
>> was how it showed up. The bug of course would be that graphs that
>> start with u would go to the second letter, but the u would still be
>> used in alphabetization, because the alphabetizing is prior to
>> stripping.
>
> No, the u is not part of the string, it is part of the *syntax* for the
> string, just like the quotation marks. The first character of "abc" is
> a and not ", and the first character of u"abc" is also a and not u.
>
> Another way to think of it... the u" " of Unicode strings is just a
> delimiter, just like the [ ] of lists or { } of dicts -- it's not part
> of the string/list/dict.I know, that why I said above. >>I knew that the u outside ' ' is the coding for the string, . > > In Python 3 this confusion is lessened. Unicode strings (characters) are > written using just " as the delimiter (or ' if you prefer), instead of > u" " as used by Python 2. Byte strings are written using b" " instead. > This makes the common case (text strings) simple, and the uncommon case > (byte strings) more complicated. Maybe it's how I said it here that was confusing: >but the u would still be used in alphabetization, because the alphabetizing is prior to stripping by 'u' here, i meant that the only table I used with a u as the first letter(i.e. u'u;table') came back as ';table'. So I was seeing the aftermath of stripping u, but no others were stripped except that on. And since I had placed gibberish in at random, I didn't remember the 'u' in the actual table name. > > > > -- > Steven D'Aprano > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - tu...@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > But thanks for the help buddy pal. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
