[Tutor] close, but no cigar

[Marc Tompkins]

On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 6:13 PM, Dave Angel <davea at davea.name> wrote:

> On 07/22/2013 02:27 PM, Jim Mooney wrote:
>
>> Okay, I'm getting there, but this should be translating A umlaut to an old
>> DOS box character, according to my ASCII table, but instead it's print
>> small 'u':
>>
>> def main():
>>      zark = ''
>>      for x in "ÀÄÄÄ":
>>          print(unichr(ord(u'x')-3), end=' ')
>>
>> result: u u u u
>>
>>
> You're not using any of the A-umlaut characters in that code.  You're
> repeatedly taking ord of the literal u'x'
>
> And naturally, u is 3 characters less than x.
>

Oooh - I missed that...
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