i come back to python; just some questions

[Emile van Sebille]

ppcdev
> i was working on an old pentium II and wanted to send a very long
> string in the USER parameter but it made my computer bug.. is it
> normal???
>
> str='a'; r=range(1024);
> for x in r[:]:
>     str=str+str
>

I can't imagine a computer it wouldn't be normal on. ;-)  This will
create a string of length 2**1024, a result that starts 1797... and
continues for another ~296 numbers.  I imagine what you probably want is
a string of 1024 characters?

str = 'a'*1024

HTH,

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Emile van Sebille
emile at fenx.com

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