[Python-Dev] n.numbits: method or property? (original) (raw)
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On Wed, Nov 12, 2008, Mark Dickinson wrote:
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
As for numbits, I think it should be a method, because while it's very fast for the current implementation of longs, it could be longer to calculate for a long implementation using something other than a power-of-2 base. Right: numbits is only a natural property of a binary integer. On the other hand, I can't realistically see Python ever adopting a non power-of-two based implementation.
What do you call Decimal? ;-)
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