In article <0279f596$0$5185$c3e8...@news.astraweb.com>, Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au> 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 my python installation must me outdated ;-) 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. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list