On Fri, 07 Sep 2012 00:39:33 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 11:37 PM, Johannes Bauer <dfnsonfsdu...@gmx.de> > wrote: >> Not in my original post. If you read it again, you will clearly see >> that I was talking about purely random strings. And since you like to >> nitpick, I'll clarify further: I'm talking about bitstrings in which >> every bit of every character has the same probability of occurence, >> 50%. > > That sort of string isn't a normal thing to be comparing, though. > > Here's an idea. Someone who's doing a lot of arguing in this thread > should take Python, find the string comparison routine, and hack in some > statistics-gathering. Then run *real code* on it.
Where's the fun in that? :-P -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
