"Dennis Lee Bieber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On 23 Feb 2005 22:06:54 -0800, "Kamilche" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: > >> >> Essentially, it should be possible to use a 'packed string' format in >> Python, where as long as the characters you're sending are in the ASCII >> range 0 to 127, two will fit in a byte. >> > Pardon? You are going to fit TWO 7-bit values into one 8-bit?
Quite. Although you can sort of see how one might naively arrive at this conclusion: one 7-bit char takes 0...127, which when you put it into an 8-bit byte leaves 128...255 unused for a second char.... James -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
