Python lesson please

[gene heskett]

On Tuesday, November 08, 2011 12:53:20 AM Cameron Simpson did opine:

> On 07Nov2011 15:00, gene heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> | On Monday, November 07, 2011 02:43:11 PM Dave Angel did opine:
> | > On 11/07/2011 11:40 AM, gene heskett wrote:
> | > > Down toward the bottom of the file, the tab indentations were as
> | > > high as 33 leading tabs per line.  Each stanza of the data was
> | > > tab indented 2 additional tabs from the one above it in the
> | > > original file.  30k was perhaps a poor SWAG, but 10 to 15k seems
> | > > an entirely reasonable guess.
> | > 
> | > What program are you using to read the file and support that claim?
> | 
> | vim.  But remember, this first one started out as a copy/paste from
> | the firefox-7.0.1 screen.
> 
> I don't suppose you had autoident turned on?
> 
I think it is.  I gave up turning it off long ago because it was always on 
on the next launch.  Today I've forgotten how to turn it off.  Like hitting 
oneself in the head with a hammer, it feels so good when you stop.  :)

> I hate using cu/paste to fetch data; _always_ use a "download" link, or
> use the browser's "save page as" facility.

Which would have saved all the html codes too, this code was being 
displayed in a window of the main window.
 
> But still, if your MD5 checksums now match...

Not on that file, but on the next pull it was, and works now.  And on the 
first file, the blink compare disclosed I had some indentation wrong, and 
that there was a lowercase b in front of all the opening double quotes used 
that I didn't get originally.  I have no clue what this:
	b"hex data" means to python.

> Cheers,


Cheers, Gene
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