Greg Ewing wrote: > Travis E. Oliphant wrote: > > >>Greg Ewing wrote: > > >>>What exactly does "bit" mean in that context? >> >>Do you mean "big" ? > > > No, you've got a data type there called "bit", > which seems to imply a size, in contradiction > to the size-independent nature of the other > types. I'm asking what size-independent > information it's meant to convey.
Ah. I see what you were saying now. I guess the 'bit' type is different (we actually don't have that type in NumPy so my understanding of it is limited). The 'bit' type re-intprets the size information to be in units of "bits" and so implies a "bit-field" instead of another data-format. -Travis _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
