Fredrik Johansson <fredrik.johans...@gmail.com> added the comment: When did the name change back to numbits? Anyway, I think this reference implementation is better:
def numbits(x): x = abs(x) n = 0 while x: n += 1 x //= 2 return n (//= 2 could be changed to >>= 1) _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3439> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com