The sprit of this newsgroup!

[Peter Hansen]

Martijn Faassen wrote:
> [...]
> but i figured it out all by myself and soon I can be a senior too:
> 
> mystring = 'Hello world how are you?"
> mystring = range(217)
> mystring[10] = 'F'
> 
> works!!
> 
> but now i have a problem printing my string, I get it looking all weird like
> a lot of numbers and stuff. What is happening?

Ah, that's called "Unicode".  It's a replacement for "bytes" which
is coming into vogue these days.  There's another fellow in this
newsgroup who posts answers about Unicode and I'm sure he'll 
be along shortly to help you out.  

He's from somewhere Dutch, I think, like maybe Belgium?

-self-newbie-referential-ly-and-unhelpful-ly yr's -Peter  ;-)