boolean true and false values.

[Emile van Sebille]

Of course you're right on 125 vs 122 octal.  My
personal problem with hex is that the 'high order'
values (08x-0Fx) have never been obvious without
some mental gymnastics, whereas with octal it's
always been easy.

Emile van Sebille
emile at fenx.com
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Schneider-Kamp" <petersc at stud.ntnu.no>
To: "Emile van Sebille" <emile at fenx.com>
Cc: <python-list at python.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 2:10 PM
Subject: Re: boolean true and false values.


> Emile van Sebille wrote:
> >
> > Only when I want to know about the bits.  It's so
> > much easier to recognize 122 octal as having
> > alternate bits set than the equivalent in decimal
> > or hex.
>
> much easier than decimal - of course! But what is
> wrong about 52? By the way 122 is not alternating...
> 125 is. But then 55 is probably much better to read.
>
> or-did-you-mean-something-else-ly y'rs
> Peter
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