On 2017-05-01 01:34 PM, Ethan Furman wrote: > On 05/01/2017 07:04 AM, Juancarlo Añez wrote: >> On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 9:38 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: >> >>> just support two >>> keyword arguments to hex(): "delimiter" (as you suggest) and >>> "chunk_size" (defaulting to 1, so you get per-byte chunking by >>> default) >> >> I'd expect "chunk_size" to mean the number of hex digits (not bytes) >> per chunk. > > I was also surprised by that. Also, should Python be used on a > machine with, say, 24-bit words then a chunk size of three makes more > sense that one of 1.5. ;) > > -- > ~Ethan~ A hex digit is 4 bits long. To separate into words, the 24-bit word Python would use 3 (counting in bytes as initially proposed), or 6 (counting in hex digits). Neither option would result in a 1.5 chunk_size for 24-bit chunks.
Counting chunk_size either in nibbles or bytes seem equally intuitive to me (as long as it's documented). _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
