>>> s1='\x45' >>> s2='\xe4' >>> s1+s2 'E\xe4' >>> print s1+s2 E why s1+s2 not = '\x45\xe4'?? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/attachments/20120130/141e7e08/attachment.html>