> > > > Do you mean "×" ? > No, my string is ×tamp (I'm building a URL for a JSON query) so it's not an HTML entity, it just starts like one but misses the closing semicolon. What do you mean by shell console? In a standard python console, this problem is not visible, of course.
> it seems to be an html entity (like ), maybe something in middle > of the debugger and your browser is interpreting it instead of showing > the pure string text. > > The browser used is Firefox. --