{Spam?} [Tutor] IDLE vs. Python Command Line

[Bob Gailer]

At 08:04 PM 6/17/2004, Dragonfirebane at aol.com wrote:
>when i type:
>
>##
> >>>import string
> >>>string.letters
>##
>
>in IDLE, i get:
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>##
>'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz\x83\x8a\x8c\x8e\x9a\x9c\x9e\x9f\xaa\xb5\xba\xc0\xc1\xc2\xc3\xc4\xc5\xc6\xc7\xc8\xc9\xca\xcb\xcc\xcd\xce\xcf\xd0\xd1\xd2\xd3\xd4\xd5\xd6\xd8\xd9\xda\xdb\xdc\xdd\xde\xdf\xe0\xe1\xe2\xe3\xe4\xe5\xe6\xe7\xe8\xe9\xea\xeb\xec\xed\xee\xef\xf0\xf1\xf2\xf3\xf4\xf5\xf6\xf8\xf9\xfa\xfb\xfc\xfd\xfe\xff'
>##
>
>but when i do it on the Python Command Line, i get:
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>'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'
>##

I can confirm that behavior, but not explain it.

Bob Gailer
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