whitespace and ?asc()?

Dan Bishop danb_83 at yahoo.com
Wed Jul 2 22:41:58 EDT 2003


Steven Taschuk <staschuk at telusplanet.net> wrote in message news:<mailman.1057116904.17052.python-list at python.org>...
[snip]
> Note also that at the interpreter prompt you can (some of) those
> ASCII codes in hex just by looking at the value of the string:
> 
>     $ python
>     ...
>     >>> import string
>     >>> string.whitespace
>     '\t\n\x0b\x0c\r '
> 
> If your ASCII chart doesn't have hex, continue with
> 
>     >>> 0x0b, 0x0c
>     (11, 12)
> 
> to obtain the decimal values.

FYI,

'\x0b' == '\v' (vertical tab)
'\x0c' == '\f' (form feed)




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