On 9/1/10 4:32 PM, Stef Mientki wrote: > in winpdb I see strings like this: >>>>> a = b'string' >>>> a > 'string' >>>> type(a) > <type 'str'> >> what's the "b" doing in front of the string ? http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/stdtypes.html#bytes-and-byte-array-methods -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco