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Re: newbie question

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From Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date 2013-06-25 13:05 -0600
Subject Re: newbie question
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
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On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 8:49 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 22 June 2013 22:46:51 christhecomic@gmail.com did opine:
>
>> Writing simple program asking a question with the answer being
>> "yes"...how do I allow the correct answer if user types Yes, yes, or
>> YES?
>>
>> Thanks
>
> AND each character coming in from the keyboard with $DF before adding it to
> the comparison buffer.  Makes it all uppercase.  Then compare it to the
> uppercase YES.

It's not working for me.

>>> ''.join(chr(ord(c) & 0xdf) for c in 'ναί') == 'ΝΑΊ'
False
>>> ''.join(chr(ord(c) & 0xdf) for c in 'ναί')
'\x9d\x91\x8f'

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newbie question christhecomic@gmail.com - 2013-06-22 19:39 -0700
  Re: newbie question Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2013-06-22 19:50 -0700
  Re: newbie question Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-06-23 12:48 +1000
  Re: newbie question Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-06-23 03:08 +0000
  Re: newbie question Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> - 2013-06-22 22:49 -0400
  Re: newbie question Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-06-25 13:05 -0600
  Re: newbie question Tim Rowe <digitig@gmail.com> - 2013-06-25 20:26 +0100

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