Can't match str/unicode

[Steve D'Aprano]

On Sun, 8 Jan 2017 08:40 am, CM wrote:

> So what's going on here? Why isn't a string with the content 'match' equal
> to another string with the content 'match'?

You don't know that the content is 'match'. All you know is that when
printed, it *looks like* 'match'.

Hint:

s = 'match '
print 'match', s  # they look the same
print 'match' == s  # but they aren't the same


Start by printing repr(candidate_text) and see what you really have.




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Steve
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