Re: Recursive Property of Octal Numbers

2005-10-04 Thread Tim Roberts
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

Recursive Property of Octal Numbers

2005-10-01 Thread James Stroud
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

Re: Recursive Property of Octal Numbers

2005-10-01 Thread PoD
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

Re: Recursive Property of Octal Numbers

2005-10-01 Thread Paul Rubin
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

Re: Recursive Property of Octal Numbers

2005-10-01 Thread Dan Christensen
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'