On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 2:14 AM, jmfauth <wxjmfa...@gmail.com> wrote: > As long as you are attempting to devide a set of characters in > chunks and try to handle them seperately, it will never work.
Okay. Let's look at integers. To properly represent the Python 3 'int' type (or the Python 2 'long'), we need to be able to encode ANY integer. And of course, any attempt to divide them up into chunks will never work. So we need a single representation that will cover ANY integer, right? Perfect. We already have one of those, detailed in RFC 2795. (It's coming up to its thirteenth anniversary in a day or two. Very appropriate.) http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2795#section-4 Are you saying Python's integers should be stored as I-TAGs? ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
