On Friday 24 July 2009 16:45:40 Mark Dickinson wrote: > On Jul 24, 3:11 pm, "Rhodri James" <rho...@wildebst.demon.co.uk> > > wrote: > > Which doesn't make your point less valid. In fact I'd go so > > far as to argue that what len() gives you is the number of > > items in a container, so len(7) should return 0. > > Nah. 7 contains three bits, so len(7) should *clearly* return 3.
Almost right - however the first seven that you typed was a string seven and not an int - so the hex is 37 and that takes at least six bits... :-) Now if only someone can figure out a reason why it should return seven, then it would be perfect! - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
