On 25 August 2016 at 09:54, Ken Kundert <python-id...@shalmirane.com> wrote: > 1G -> 1e+09 > 1M -> 1e+06 > 1k -> 1e+03
While these suffixes are suitable for a scientific context, in a computing context, 1k=1024, 1M=1024*1024 and 1G=1024*1024*1024 make just as much, if not more, sense (and yes, I'm aware of Gigabyte vs Gibibyte). If "1M" were a legal Python literal,. I would expect a lot of confusion over what it meant - to the extent that it would hurt readability badly. Paul _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
