David Cournapeau wrote: > Maybe everyone understands it as 8 bits, but it has always been wrong.
It may not be officially written down anywhere, but almost everyone in the world understands a byte to mean 8 bits. When you go into a computer store and ask for 256MB of RAM, you don't expect to be asked "What size bytes would that be, then, sir?" So it's a de facto standard, and one that works perfectly well. Going against it is both futile and unnecessary, as far as I can see. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
