[Tutor] character format

[D. Hartley]

Max - yep, and the hint was "BUSY" (... BZ...)...

Unfortunately that hint doesnt lead me anywhere (except to bz2, which
involves compression, and didnt seem very likely).

I went through and removed all the \x## 's that represented
'unprintable'/carraigereturn/etc characters, but that wasnt it, ha ha.

It just may be that I don't know enough python to recognize the module
I need! (I got pickle right away, but bz leaves me blinking).

Am I missing something obvious?

~Denise

On 5/11/05, Max Noel <maxnoel_fr at yahoo.fr> wrote:
> 
> On May 12, 2005, at 01:50, jfouhy at paradise.net.nz wrote:
> 
> >>>> chr(130)
> >>>>
> > '\x82'
> >
> > If you look at http://asciitable.com/, you will see that ascii
> > chracter 130 is
> > an e with a tick on its head.  This is not something you can find
> > on your
> > keyboard, so python can't/won't display it.
> >
> 
>     You mean é? Oh, it is perfectly printable. It's even on my
> keyboard (as unshifted 2), along with è, ç, à and ù. Ah, American
> cultural assumption... ^^
> 
>     Denise: If it is what I think it is, you may want to have a look
> at the first 2 characters of the string, which if I recall are
> printable, and should point you toward the module you have to use to
> solve that one.
> 
> -- Max
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