On 06/03/2013 10:31 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2013-06-03, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
On Sun, 02 Jun 2013 21:25:45 +0200, Mok-Kong Shen
<mok-kong.s...@t-online.de> declaimed the following in
gmane.comp.python.general:
b'7' is the byte with the character 7 in a certain code, so that's
ok. In other PLs one assigns an int to a byte, with that int in either
In other languages "byte" is an 8-bit signed/unsigned numeric.
That's a common assumption, but historically, a "byte" was merely the
smallest addressable unit of memory. The size of a "byte" on widely
used used CPUs ranged from 4 bits to 60 bits.
<Hehe> I recall rewriting the unpacking algorithm to get the 10
characters from each byte, on such a machine.
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