Guido van Rossum wrote: >> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 1:43 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: >> >>> Proposals to address this include: >>> - introduce a "character" literal to allow c'a' as an alternative to >>> ord('a') > > -1; the result is not a *character* but an integer. Would you be happier if it were spelled i'a' instead? -- Greg