Recursive Property of Octal Numbers

[Dan Christensen]

James Stroud <jstroud at mbi.ucla.edu> writes:

> I'm very curious about what is going on here. I'm sure my curiosity has 
> something to do with ignorance of some fundamental concept of computer 
> science (maybe that 8 is just a vertical infinity?):
>
> py> b = '\xb6'
> py> b[0]
> '\xb6'
> py> b[0][0]
> '\xb6'

Maybe this clarifies things?

>>> b='a'
>>> b[0]
'a'
>>> b[0][0]
'a'
>>> b[0] == b
True

Dan