On 2013-06-15, Denis McMahon <denismfmcma...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, 14 Jun 2013 16:58:20 +0300, Nick the Gr33k wrote: > >> On 14/6/2013 1:14 ????, Cameron Simpson wrote: >>> Normally a character in a b'...' item represents the byte value >>> matching the character's Unicode ordinal value. > >> The only thing that i didn't understood is this line. >> First please tell me what is a byte value > > Seriously? You don't understand the term byte? And you're the support > desk for a webhosting company?
Well, we haven't had this thread for a week or so... There is some ambiguity in the term "byte". It used to mean the smallest addressable unit of memory (which varied in the past -- at one point, both 20 and 60 bit "bytes" were common). These days the smallest addressable unit of memory is almost always 8 bits on desktop and embedded processors (but often not on DSPs). That's why when IEEE stadards want to refer to an 8-bit chunk of data they use the term "octet". :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
