Puzzle 3 When in Kraków
Python Brain Teasers — by Miki Tebeka (12 / 40)
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city = 'Kraków'
print(len(city))Guess the Output
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This code will print: 7
Unicode
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If you count the number of characters in Kraków, it’ll come out to 6. So why 7? The reason is … history.
In the beginning, computers were developed in English-speaking countries — the UK and the US. When early developers wanted to encode text in computers that only understand bits, they came out with the following scheme. Use a byte (8 bits) to represent a character. For example, a is 97…
