[Tutor] character format

Tim Peters tim.peters at gmail.com
Thu May 12 03:32:42 CEST 2005


[D. Hartley]
> Max - yep, and the hint was "BUSY" (... BZ...)...
>
> Unfortunately that hint doesnt lead me anywhere (except to bz2, which
> involves compression, and didnt seem very likely).
>
> I went through and removed all the \x## 's that represented
> 'unprintable'/carraigereturn/etc characters, but that wasnt it, ha ha.
>
> It just may be that I don't know enough python to recognize the module
> I need! (I got pickle right away, but bz leaves me blinking).
>
> Am I missing something obvious?

Not at all.  The only problem is a propensity toward dismissing the
obvious as being not very likely <wink>.  Try reading those docs from
the end instead of from the beginning.


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