On Oct 29, 4:16 pm, Glenn Linderman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On approximately 10/29/2008 11:51 AM, came the following characters from > the keyboard of Mensanator: > > > or in 2.6 > > > print 'highest bit position: %d' % (len(bin(3328)[2:])-1) > > > highest bit position: 11 > > This works, but where is it documented?
Good question. Now that I think about it, I believe I learned of it here, never saw it in the docs. > Searching the Python 2.6 docs > for bin found lots of things that start with bin, but none of them were > bin. Searching the builtins page manual didn't find it. Is this a bug > in the documentation? Well ,it's mentioned in "What's new in Python 2.6": <quote> Python 3.0 adds several new built-in functions and change the semantics of some existing built-ins. Entirely new functions such as bin() have simply been added to Python 2.6, but existing built-ins haven’t been changed; </quote> You would think when you add a new function, you would also add it's documentation, but maybe that was an oversight. I don't have 3.0, but maybe it can be found in that set of docs. > > -- > Glenn --http://nevcal.com/ > =========================== > A protocol is complete when there is nothing left to remove. > -- Stuart Cheshire, Apple Computer, regarding Zero Configuration Networking -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list