len() should always return something

[Mark Lawrence]

Marcus Wanner wrote:
> On 7/24/2009 3:04 PM, Roy Smith wrote:
>> In article <0279f596$0$5185$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>,
>>  Steven D'Aprano <steve at REMOVE-THIS-cybersource.com.au> wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:50:03 +0200, superpollo wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Nah.  7 contains three bits, so len(7) should *clearly* return 3.
>>>> and len("7") must return 8, by the same token... but wait!
>>>>
>>>>  >>> len("7")
>>>> 1
>>>>  >>>
>>>>  >>>
>>>> my python installation must me outdated ;-)
>>> No no no, you're obviously using an awesome version of Python that 
>>> can compress single-character strings to a single bit!
>>
>> Compressing strings to a single bit is easy.  It's the uncompressing 
>> that's tricky.
> I assume you mean ord("7")%2?
> 
> First one to correctly decompress the value 0 into an ASCII character 
> wins the title of the world's most capable hacker :p
> 
> Marcus
asciichar = chr(len(0)) if the OP's wishes come true?

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Kindest regards.

Mark Lawrence.