On Jan 31, 6:03 pm, Jon Clements <jon...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi Group, > > This has a certain amount of irony (as this is what I'm pretty much > after):- > Fromhttp://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/whatsnew/3.1.html: > "The int() type gained a bit_length method that returns the number of > bits necessary to represent its argument in binary:" > > Any tips on how to get this in 2.5.2 as that's the production version > I'm stuck with.
For a positive integer, the simplest method (not necessarily the fastest) is to count how many times you need to shift it right to make it become zero. For non-positive integers, what answers do you want? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
