On Fri, Aug 19, 2016, at 16:51, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: > On Saturday, August 20, 2016 at 6:03:53 AM UTC+12, Terry Reedy wrote: > > > > An 'octet' is a byte of 8 bits. > > Is there any other size of byte?
Not very often anymore. Used to be some systems had 9-bit bytes, and of course a lot of communication protocols only supported 7-bit data bytes. "Byte" is a technical term in the C and C++ standards meaning the smallest addressable unit even if that is a larger word. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
