On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Fábio Santos <fabiosantos...@gmail.com> wrote: >> And of course, the Python Programmer's moral code is only 80 characters >> wide. > > No! Was it not seventy characters wide? Was I fooled my entire life?
Well you see, it was 70 bytes back in the Python 2 days (I'll defer to Steven for data points earlier than that), but with Python 3, there were two versions: one was 140 bytes representing 70 characters, the other 280 bytes representing 70 characters. In Python 3.3, they were merged, and a trivial amount of overhead added, so now it's 80 bytes representing 70 characters. But you have an absolute guarantee that it's correct now. Of course, the entire code can be represented as a single int now. You used to have to use a long. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
