Marcus Wanner wrote:
On 7/24/2009 3:04 PM, Roy Smith wrote:
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my python installation must me outdated ;-)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.
I assume you mean ord("7")%2?
First one to correctly decompress the value 0 into an ASCII character
wins the title of the world's most capable hacker :p
Marcus
asciichar = chr(len(0)) if the OP's wishes come true?
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