On 3 Nov 2005, at 05:03, Alex Martelli wrote: > Brandon K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote [inverting his topposting!]: > > >>> Six megabytes is pretty much nothing on a modern computer. >>> > > >> BTW, it'd be 6 megabits or 750kb ;) >> > > ...but Mike was proposing using one digit per bit, hence, 6 megabytes. > That makes it easy to search for bitpatterns with re or > string.find; if > the bits were packed 8 to a byte, such searches would be very hard. >
They would just require some out-of-the-box thinking using character arrays and stuff I think. It's definately still doable with regex's if you really want to. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
