On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:50:03 +0200, superpollo wrote: >> Nah. 7 contains three bits, so len(7) should *clearly* return 3. > > and len("7") must return 8, by the same token... but wait! > > >>> len("7") > 1 > >>> > >>> > my python installation must me outdated ;-)
No no no, you're obviously using an awesome version of Python that can compress single-character strings to a single bit! -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list