[Python-Dev] Re: [Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Lib textwrap.py,1.18,1.19

[Just van Rossum]

Greg Ward wrote:

> Just, can you run the following commands and tell me what you get:

I get this in all four cases:

['0x9', '0xa', '0xb', '0xc', '0xd', '0x20']

But: I can't reproduce the problem with -c, only in an interactive shell or in a
script! Here's what I get in an interactive session:

  sh-2.05a$ ./python.exe -S
  Python 2.3a0 (#42, Dec 11 2002, 10:33:42) 
  [GCC 3.1 20020420 (prerelease)] on darwin
  Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
  >>> import string; print [hex(ord(c)) for c in string.whitespace]
  ['0x9', '0xa', '0xb', '0xc', '0xd', '0x20', '0xa0']
  >>> 

(Look, now there's an 0xa0 in there!)

  sh-2.05a$ ./python.exe 
  Python 2.3a0 (#42, Dec 11 2002, 10:33:42) 
  [GCC 3.1 20020420 (prerelease)] on darwin
  Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
  >>> import string; print [hex(ord(c)) for c in string.whitespace]
  ['0x9', '0xa', '0xb', '0xc', '0xd', '0x20']
  >>> 

  sh-2.05a$ LANG=C ./python.exe -S
  Python 2.3a0 (#42, Dec 11 2002, 10:33:42) 
  [GCC 3.1 20020420 (prerelease)] on darwin
  Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
  >>> import string; print [hex(ord(c)) for c in string.whitespace]
  ['0x9', '0xa', '0xb', '0xc', '0xd', '0x20']
  >>> 

  sh-2.05a$ LANG=C ./python.exe   
  Python 2.3a0 (#42, Dec 11 2002, 10:33:42) 
  [GCC 3.1 20020420 (prerelease)] on darwin
  Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
  >>> import string; print [hex(ord(c)) for c in string.whitespace]
  ['0x9', '0xa', '0xb', '0xc', '0xd', '0x20']
  >>> 

I have _no_ idea what's going on here.

Just