On Feb 24, 6:35 pm, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > I understand that a Python integer can run to infinity. Quite how the > illustrious rr manages to test for the length of a string that's already > used all of the memory on his system has baffled me,
When did i ever say that i would need a string who's length is INFINITY? In fact, i don't. My example was just that, as SIMPLIFIED example of the problem that was the genesis of my question. In my "real world" problem, i don't expect the string to EVER be more than double digits in length. But as any good programmer knows, you never want to solve problems as globally as possible. I need to do comparisons on strings now, but maybe integers later, or who knows. INFINITY comparisons are useful in many places. > but I'm sure that > all the people who frequent this list with their Phds, MScs or whatever > will soon correct me. I don't believe you'd need a Phd to understand my problem. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
