how to get the length of a number

[Felipe Almeida Lessa]

Em Dom, 2006-06-11 às 22:33 +0200, Sybren Stuvel escreveu:
> Felipe Almeida Lessa enlightened us with:
> > To see how many decimal digits it has:
> >
> >     import math
> >     math.ceil(math.log(i, 10))
> 
> That doesn't work properly.
> 
> >>> import math
> >>> math.ceil(math.log(10000, 10))
> 4.0
> >>> math.ceil(math.log(10001, 10))
> 5.0
> 
> But "10000" certainly has as much digits as "10001".

Hmmm, you're right.

math.floor(math.log(x, 10)) + 1

-- 
Felipe.