On 2007-10-17, Ixiaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> val = 'string'
> li = list(val)
> print li.reverse()
>
> returns nothing, but,
>
> val = 'string'
> li = list(val)
> li.reverse()
> print li
>
> returns what I want. Why does Python do that?
Because it does. :)
> Also I have been playing around with Binary math and noticed that
> Python treats:
>
> val = 00110
>
> as the integer 72 instead of returning 00110, why does Python do that?
In order to be "compatible" with the C language integer literal
convensions, integer litereals staring with a '0' are base-8,
so 00110 is
0 * 8^0 0
+ 1 * 8^1 8
+ 1 * 8^2 64
+ 0 * 8^3 0
+ 0 * 8^4 0
----
72
> (and how can I get around it?)
You can't.
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