"Peter Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> What did you expect the "length" of the integer 3 to be?
Perhaps 2 (bits in a minimal binary representation).
I once, for maybe a minute, considered proposing this as an overloaded
meaning of len, but realized that that would more often mask errors than
save time.
If case bits(i) is what the OP wants:
def bits(i):
i = abs(i)
b = 0
while i:
i >>= 1
b += 1
return b
Terry J. Reedy
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