On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 05:06:42 +0000, Stargaming wrote: > On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 23:44:00 -0400, Carl Banks wrote: > >> Anyone with me here? (I know the deadline for P3 PEPs has passed; this >> is just talk.) >> >> Not many people are bit-fiddling these days. > > Why did we invent the `binary literals`_ (0b101) then?
Hah, good point. Ironic that base-2 literals are going into Python, but have never been a standard part of C where they would be a LOT more useful. Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
