Re: Recursive Property of Octal Numbers
James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I'm very curious about what is going on here. I'm sure my curiosity has >something to do with ignorance of some fundamental concept of computer >science (maybe that 8 is just a vertical infinity?): > >py> b = '\xb6' 8 doesn't have anything to do with it. What you have there is hexadecimal. 0377 is an example of an octal number. However, as was pointed out elsewhere, the same thing would be true even if you used 'z'. -- - Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Recursive Property of Octal Numbers
James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm very curious about what is going on here. I'm sure my curiosity has > something to do with ignorance of some fundamental concept of computer > science (maybe that 8 is just a vertical infinity?): > > py> b = '\xb6' > py> b[0] > '\xb6' > py> b[0][0] > '\xb6' Maybe this clarifies things? >>> b='a' >>> b[0] 'a' >>> b[0][0] 'a' >>> b[0] == b True Dan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Recursive Property of Octal Numbers
James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm very curious about what is going on here. I'm sure my curiosity has > something to do with ignorance of some fundamental concept of computer > science (maybe that 8 is just a vertical infinity?): Python doesn't have a character type. A character is just a string of length 1. So 'a'[0] is the same as 'a'. Thus 'a'[0][0][0]...[0] is also the same as 'a'. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Recursive Property of Octal Numbers
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 15:40:51 -0700, James Stroud wrote: > I'm very curious about what is going on here. I'm sure my curiosity has > something to do with ignorance of some fundamental concept of computer > science (maybe that 8 is just a vertical infinity?): > > py> b = '\xb6' > py> b[0] > '\xb6' > py> b[0][0] > '\xb6' > py> b[0][0][0] > '\xb6' > py> b[0][0][0][0] > '\xb6' > py> b[0][0][0][0][0] > '\xb6' > > > > James b is a 1 character string. b[0] is a one character string which is the first character of b. Therefore b[0] == b. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Recursive Property of Octal Numbers
I'm very curious about what is going on here. I'm sure my curiosity has something to do with ignorance of some fundamental concept of computer science (maybe that 8 is just a vertical infinity?): py> b = '\xb6' py> b[0] '\xb6' py> b[0][0] '\xb6' py> b[0][0][0] '\xb6' py> b[0][0][0][0] '\xb6' py> b[0][0][0][0][0] '\xb6' James -- James Stroud UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics Box 951570 Los Angeles, CA 90095 http://www.jamesstroud.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
