Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 16:40:43 -0500, Peter Hansen wrote: >>Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> >>>On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 15:51:30 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: >>> >>>>I've never heard of anybody using the data as source of >>>>entropy. >>> >>>Me neither, but the original poster did ask how to read every nth byte >>>of "the Internet stream", so I assumed he had something like that in mind. >> >>And to think that if you'd just waited for the OP to explain what the >>heck he meant by "the Internet stream", you'd have saved ever so much >>time. ;-) > > Has he done so yet? I can't see it anywhere.
He hasn't, so you'd _still_ be saving time. <wink> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list