On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Antoine Pitrou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As for numbits, I think it should be a method, because while it's very fast > for > the current implementation of longs, it could be longer to calculate for a > long > implementation using something other than a power-of-2 base. Right: numbits is only a natural property of a *binary* integer. On the other hand, I can't realistically see Python ever adopting a non power-of-two based implementation. Mark _______________________________________________ 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
