Fábio Santos fabiosantos...@gmail.com wrote:
On 5 Jun 2013 06:23, Tim Roberts t...@probo.com wrote:
A single machine word was 60 bits, so a single register read got you 10
characters.
10 characters! Now that sounds like it's enough to actually store a word.
However long words can inadverten be
On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote:
So... can we cite http://xkcd.com/859/ in two threads at once, or does
that create twice as much tension?
No, you just look at one of them upside-down, and then they cancel
each other out.
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On 5 Jun 2013 06:23, Tim Roberts t...@probo.com wrote:
A single machine word was 60 bits, so a single register read got you 10
characters.
10 characters! Now that sounds like it's enough to actually store a word.
However long words can inadverten be cropped.
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On 2013-06-12, F?bio Santos fabiosantos...@gmail.com wrote:
On 5 Jun 2013 06:23, Tim Roberts t...@probo.com wrote:
A single machine word was 60 bits, so a single register read got you 10
characters.
10 characters! Now that sounds like it's enough to actually store a word.
However long words
On 2013-06-03, Dan Stromberg drsali...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 7:31 AM, Grant Edwards invalid@invalid.invalidwrote:
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
On 2013-06-03, Carlos Nepomuceno carlosnepomuc...@outlook.com wrote:
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 15:41:41 -0700
Subject: Re: How to get an integer from a sequence of bytes
From: drsali...@gmail.com
To: python-list@python.org
[...]
Today though, it would be
From: invalid@invalid.invalid
Subject: Re: How to get an integer from a sequence of bytes
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 13:42:46 +
To: python-list@python.org
[...]
VN designs are still very common in smaller CPUs (embedded stuff).
DSPs perhaps... not CPUs. Even ARMs are Harvard variants.
On 4 June 2013 14:39, Grant Edwards invalid@invalid.invalid wrote:
On 2013-06-03, Dan Stromberg drsali...@gmail.com wrote:
Today though, it would be difficult to sell a conventional (Von Neumann)
computer that didn't have 8 bit bytes.
There are tons (as in millions of units per month) of CPUs
On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 5:51 AM, Joshua Landau
joshua.landau...@gmail.com wrote:
On 4 June 2013 14:39, Grant Edwards invalid@invalid.invalid wrote:
On 2013-06-03, Dan Stromberg drsali...@gmail.com wrote:
Today though, it would be difficult to sell a conventional (Von Neumann)
computer that
Grant Edwards invalid@invalid.invalid wrote:
On 2013-06-03, Dan Stromberg drsali...@gmail.com wrote:
When I was a Freshman in college, I used a CDC Cyber a lot; it had 6 bit
bytes and 60 bit words. This was in 1985.
But you couldn't address individual 6-bit hextets in memory could
you? My
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
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
On 2013-06-03, Dave Angel d...@davea.name wrote:
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'
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 7:31 AM, Grant Edwards invalid@invalid.invalidwrote:
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.
Quoting from
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 15:41:41 -0700
Subject: Re: How to get an integer from a sequence of bytes
From: drsali...@gmail.com
To: python-list@python.org
[...]
Today though, it would be difficult to sell a conventional (Von
Neumann) computer that didn't
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Carlos Nepomuceno
carlosnepomuc...@outlook.com wrote:
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 15:41:41 -0700
Subject: Re: How to get an integer from a sequence of bytes
From: drsali...@gmail.com
To: python-list@python.org
[...]
Today
Am 30.05.2013 21:22, schrieb Ned Batchelder:
On 5/30/2013 2:26 PM, Mok-Kong Shen wrote:
Am 27.05.2013 17:30, schrieb Ned Batchelder:
On 5/27/2013 10:45 AM, Mok-Kong Shen wrote:
From an int one can use to_bytes to get its individual bytes,
but how can one reconstruct the int from the sequence
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 5:25 AM, Mok-Kong Shen mok-kong.s...@t-online.de wrote:
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
decimal notation or hexadecimal notation, or else one assigns a
character to
Am 27.05.2013 17:30, schrieb Ned Batchelder:
On 5/27/2013 10:45 AM, Mok-Kong Shen wrote:
From an int one can use to_bytes to get its individual bytes,
but how can one reconstruct the int from the sequence of bytes?
The next thing in the docs after int.to_bytes is int.from_bytes:
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Mok-Kong Shen
mok-kong.s...@t-online.de wrote:
Am 27.05.2013 17:30, schrieb Ned Batchelder:
On 5/27/2013 10:45 AM, Mok-Kong Shen wrote:
From an int one can use to_bytes to get its individual bytes,
but how can one reconstruct the int from the sequence of
On 30 mai, 20:42, Ian Kelly ian.g.ke...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Mok-Kong Shen
mok-kong.s...@t-online.de wrote:
Am 27.05.2013 17:30, schrieb Ned Batchelder:
On 5/27/2013 10:45 AM, Mok-Kong Shen wrote:
From an int one can use to_bytes to get its individual
On 5/30/2013 2:26 PM, Mok-Kong Shen wrote:
Am 27.05.2013 17:30, schrieb Ned Batchelder:
On 5/27/2013 10:45 AM, Mok-Kong Shen wrote:
From an int one can use to_bytes to get its individual bytes,
but how can one reconstruct the int from the sequence of bytes?
The next thing in the docs after
On 2013-05-27, Mok-Kong Shen mok-kong.s...@t-online.de wrote:
From an int one can use to_bytes to get its individual bytes,
but how can one reconstruct the int from the sequence of bytes?
One way is using the struct module.
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Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Uh-oh!!
From an int one can use to_bytes to get its individual bytes,
but how can one reconstruct the int from the sequence of bytes?
Thanks in advance.
M. K. Shen
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On Mon, 27 May 2013 16:45:05 +0200, Mok-Kong Shen wrote:
From an int one can use to_bytes to get its individual bytes, but how
can one reconstruct the int from the sequence of bytes?
Here's one way:
py n = 11999102937234
py m = 0
py for b in n.to_bytes(6, 'big'):
... m = 256*m + b
...
py
On 5/27/2013 10:45 AM, Mok-Kong Shen wrote:
From an int one can use to_bytes to get its individual bytes,
but how can one reconstruct the int from the sequence of bytes?
The next thing in the docs after int.to_bytes is int.from_bytes:
On Mon, 27 May 2013 11:30:18 -0400, Ned Batchelder wrote:
On 5/27/2013 10:45 AM, Mok-Kong Shen wrote:
From an int one can use to_bytes to get its individual bytes, but how
can one reconstruct the int from the sequence of bytes?
The next thing in the docs after int.to_bytes is
From: steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info
Subject: Re: How to get an integer from a sequence of bytes
Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 15:00:39 +
To: python-list@python.org
On Mon, 27 May 2013 16:45:05 +0200, Mok-Kong Shen wrote:
From an int one can use
On 05/27/2013 08:31 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Mon, 27 May 2013 11:30:18 -0400, Ned Batchelder wrote:
On 5/27/2013 10:45 AM, Mok-Kong Shen wrote:
From an int one can use to_bytes to get its individual bytes, but how
can one reconstruct the int from the sequence of bytes?
The next thing
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