SMRUTI RANJAN SAHOO added the comment: i think in this, "line \fone\nline two\n" ,the space after line taking some garbage value or you can say hex value of "\". so that's why that is showing some hex value. if you write "\n " instead of"\" then you can't find that hex value. i attached my idle image here. ---------- nosy: +SMRUTI RANJAN SAHOO Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file38523/python.JPG _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12855> _______________________________________