[Python-3000] sizeof(size_t) < sizeof(long)

[Greg Ewing]

David Cournapeau wrote:

> Maybe everyone understands it as 8 bits, but it has always been wrong.

It may not be officially written down anywhere, but
almost everyone in the world understands a byte to mean
8 bits. When you go into a computer store and ask for
256MB of RAM, you don't expect to be asked "What size
bytes would that be, then, sir?"

So it's a de facto standard, and one that works perfectly
well. Going against it is both futile and unnecessary,
as far as I can see.

-- 
Greg