.split() Qeustion

[Chris Angelico]

On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Lele Gaifax <lele at metapensiero.it> wrote:
> MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> writes:
>
>> On 15/08/2013 15:38, Lele Gaifax wrote:
>>> wxjmfauth at gmail.com writes:
>>>> PS A "mole" is not a number.
>>>
>>> Oh, nice to know. And OOC, what is a "mole" in your stupid science?
>>> OTOH, WTF does that matter in current thread and with Python in general?
>>>
>> A "mole" is a term from chemistry:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mole_%28unit%29
>
> Yes, I know that, but AFAIU, there is a closer correlation between "a
> mole" and "a number" than between "a string" and "the number of bytes an
> arbitrary computer [language] needs to store it". It did not come out as
> funny as I meant :)

A mole is as much a number (6e23) as the light year is a number (9.5e15).

ChrisA