In article <[email protected]>,
Steven D'Aprano <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:50:03 +0200, superpollo wrote:
>
> >> Nah. 7 contains three bits, so len(7) should *clearly* return 3.
> >
> > and len("7") must return 8, by the same token... but wait!
> >
> > >>> len("7")
> > 1
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > my python installation must me outdated ;-)
>
> No no no, you're obviously using an awesome version of Python that can
> compress single-character strings to a single bit!
Compressing strings to a single bit is easy. It's the uncompressing that's
tricky.
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