Greg Ewing wrote: > When you go into a computer store and ask for > 256MB of RAM, you don't expect to be asked "What size > bytes would that be, then, sir?" >
I ask for "256 Mo", Mo for Mega-octet: French (and most non English languages I am aware of) does not have this ambiguity :) And anyway, in a computer store, you find memory for personal computers, where one byte always has 8 bits. > So it's a de facto standard, and one that works perfectly > well. Going against it is both futile and unnecessary, > as far as I can see. > Going against the C standard seems pretty futile to me. cheers, David _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
