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Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:23:22 -0500
From: Dave Angel <d@davea.name>
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On 01/30/2012 08:02 AM, contro opinion wrote:
>>>> s1='\x45'
>>>> s2='\xe4'
>>>> s1+s2
> 'E\xe4'
>>>> print  s1+s2
> E
>
> why  s1+s2  not  =  '\x45\xe4'??
>
It is.  "E" is  "\x45".  That's plain ASCII and documented everywhere.



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