A few questiosn about encoding

[Benjamin Schollnick]

Nick,

>> The only thing that i didn't understood is this line.
>> First please tell me what is a byte value
>> 
>>> \x1b is a sequence you find inside strings (and "byte" strings, the
>>> b'...' format).
>> 
>> \x1b is a character(ESC) represented in hex format
>> 
>> b'\x1b' is a byte object that represents what?
>> 
>> 
>> >>> chr(27).encode('utf-8')
>> b'\x1b'
>> 
>> >>> b'\x1b'.decode('utf-8')
>> '\x1b'
>> 
>> After decoding it gives the char ESC in hex format
>> Shouldn't it result in value 27 which is the ordinal of ESC ?

I'm sorry are you not listening?

1b is a HEXADECIMAL Number.  As a so-called programmer, did you seriously not consider that?

Try this:

1) Open a Web browser
2) Go to Google.com
3) Type in "Hex 1B" 
4) Click on the first link
5) In the Hexadecimal column find 1B.

Or open your favorite calculator, and convert Hexadecimal 1B to Decimal (Base 10).

		- Benjamin


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