>>>>> Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au> (SD) wrote:
>SD> Ambiguity essentially boils down to being unable to reasonably predict >SD> the expectation of the coder. I say "reasonably", because if you allow >SD> unreasonable situations, everything is "ambiguous": That's for me the reason that len(42) is ambiguous. The OP apparently had 1 as expectation, whereas my first thought was the minimal number of bits to represent the number and 7.5 million came later :=). The number of bits I certainly find reasonable, and I would find the number of decimal digits equally reasonable. More so than 1, actually. 1 as the length of an int doesn't give any information. -- Piet van Oostrum <p...@cs.uu.nl> URL: http://pietvanoostrum.com [PGP 8DAE142BE17999C4] Private email: p...@vanoostrum.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
