Re: Recursive Property of Octal Numbers

2005-10-03 Thread Tim Roberts
James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I'm very curious about what is going on here. I'm sure my curiosity has >something to do with ignorance of some fundamental concept of computer >science (maybe that 8 is just a vertical infinity?): > >py> b = '\xb6' 8 doesn't have anything to do with it

Re: Recursive Property of Octal Numbers

2005-10-01 Thread Dan Christensen
James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm very curious about what is going on here. I'm sure my curiosity has > something to do with ignorance of some fundamental concept of computer > science (maybe that 8 is just a vertical infinity?): > > py> b = '\xb6' > py> b[0] > '\xb6' > py> b[0][0]

Re: Recursive Property of Octal Numbers

2005-10-01 Thread Paul Rubin
James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm very curious about what is going on here. I'm sure my curiosity has > something to do with ignorance of some fundamental concept of computer > science (maybe that 8 is just a vertical infinity?): Python doesn't have a character type. A character is

Re: Recursive Property of Octal Numbers

2005-10-01 Thread PoD
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 15:40:51 -0700, James Stroud wrote: > I'm very curious about what is going on here. I'm sure my curiosity has > something to do with ignorance of some fundamental concept of computer > science (maybe that 8 is just a vertical infinity?): > > py> b = '\xb6' > py> b[0] > '\xb6