On Nov 7, 2013, at 22:24, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 1:43 PM, R. Michael Weylandt > <michael.weyla...@gmail.com> <michael.weyla...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Chris's point is more subtle: the typical computer will store the number >> 65536 in a single byte, but it will also store 4 and 8 in one byte. > > Well, 65536 won't fit in a single byte, nor even in two (only just). A > typical binary representation of 65536 would take 3 bytes, or 4 for a > common integer type: 0x00 0x01 0x00 0x00 (big-endian). Quite right -- meant C's int type, (machine word) not char. My mistake! Michael -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
