len() should always return something

Mark Dickinson dickinsm at gmail.com
Fri Jul 24 10:45:40 EDT 2009


On Jul 24, 3:11 pm, "Rhodri James" <rho... at wildebst.demon.co.uk>
wrote:
> Which doesn't make your point less valid.  In fact I'd go so
> far as to argue that what len() gives you is the number of
> items in a container, so len(7) should return 0.

Nah.  7 contains three bits, so len(7) should *clearly* return 3.

Mark



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