how to get the length of a number

[Cameron Laird]

In article <mailman.6895.1150058832.27775.python-list at python.org>,
Felipe Almeida Lessa  <felipe.lessa at gmail.com> wrote:
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>math.floor(math.log(x, 10)) + 1
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>Felipe.
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... and you're restricting to the positive integers, I take it?
I still have rounding problems:
  >>> def l(x):
  ...     return math.floor(math.log(x, 10)) + 1
  ... 
  >>> l(10)
  2.0
  >>> l(100)
  3.0
  >>> l(1000)
  3.0
  >>> l(10000)
  5.0
  >>> l(100000)
  6.0
  >>> l(1000000)
  6.0
  >>> l(10000000)
  8.0

While modest mollification improves these results, it's going
to be tough to beat len(str(x)).