Dive into Python question

[Fred C. Dobbs]

I feel like an idiot. I'm going thru "Dive Into Python" and running the
first program - odbchelper.py

My output is "pwd=secret;database=master;uid=sa;server=mpilgrim" which
has all the substrings reversed from the output documented in the book.
I've run the downloaded code in Komodo, PythonWin and the command line
and get the same results.

Have I set some switch on my python install that reverses everything?