whitespace and ?asc()?
Mike C. Fletcher
mcfletch at rogers.com
Tue Jul 1 22:42:24 EDT 2003
Ray Tomes wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I am totally new to python. On the whole I really like the design of
> the language and after just one day may be considered a convert.
Yay!
> I was trying to find out the exact definition of whitespace so I went
> to look at strings.whitespace to find out which chars were whitespace,
> and found 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 32 which according to my ancient ascii
> chart are TAB, LF, VT, NP, CR, SPACE. Anyone know what NP = 12 is?
FormFeed (FF) if my memory serves. Doing:
print '\x0c' # hexidecimal 12
also prints an FF in PythonWin, so seems likely that's it.
> Also, in trying to find the ASCII (or is it ANSI) values for
> characters I could not find the reverse function for chr() [in BASIC
> it is asc()]- can someone please tell me what reverses chr()?
ord(character) in Python. Note that unichr() is also reversed by ord,
very tricky function that ord :) .
> I had to do this yucky thing to decode whitespace ...
Ick, off to the dungeons with you! ;)
HTH,
Mike
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