Zooko O'Whielacronx <[email protected]> added the comment:
There is a small mistake in the docs:
def bit_length(x):
'Number of bits necessary to represent self in binary.'
s = bin(x) # binary representation: bin(-37) --> '-0b100101'
s = s.lstrip('-0b') # remove leading zeros and minus sign
return len(s) # len('100101') --> 6
is probably supposed to be:
def bit_length(x):
'Number of bits necessary to represent x in binary.'
s = bin(x) # binary representation: bin(-37) --> '-0b100101'
s = s.lstrip('-0b') # remove leading zeros and minus sign
return len(s) # len('100101') --> 6
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nosy: +zooko
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