[Python-Dev] PEP: Adding data-type objects to Python (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Oct 29 23:58:20 CET 2006


Travis E. Oliphant wrote:

Greg Ewing wrote:

What exactly does "bit" mean in that context? Do you mean "big" ?

No, you've got a data type there called "bit", which seems to imply a size, in contradiction to the size-independent nature of the other types. I'm asking what size-independent information it's meant to convey.

-- Greg



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