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Author	zooko
Recipients	fredrikj, mark.dickinson, pitrou, rhettinger, terry.reedy, vstinner, zooko
Date	2010-06-21.22:04:02
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Message-id	<[email protected]>
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There is a small mistake in the docs: def bit_length(x): 'Number of bits necessary to represent self in binary.' s = bin(x) # binary representation: bin(-37) --> '-0b100101' s = s.lstrip('-0b') # remove leading zeros and minus sign return len(s) # len('100101') --> 6 is probably supposed to be: def bit_length(x): 'Number of bits necessary to represent x in binary.' s = bin(x) # binary representation: bin(-37) --> '-0b100101' s = s.lstrip('-0b') # remove leading zeros and minus sign return len(s) # len('100101') --> 6

There is a small mistake in the docs:

def bit_length(x):
    'Number of bits necessary to represent self in binary.'
    s = bin(x)          # binary representation:  bin(-37) --> '-0b100101'
    s = s.lstrip('-0b') # remove leading zeros and minus sign
    return len(s)       # len('100101') --> 6

is probably supposed to be:

def bit_length(x):
    'Number of bits necessary to represent x in binary.'
    s = bin(x)          # binary representation:  bin(-37) --> '-0b100101'
    s = s.lstrip('-0b') # remove leading zeros and minus sign
    return len(s)       # len('100101') --> 6

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Date	User	Action	Args
2010-06-21 22:04:06	zooko	set	recipients: + zooko, rhettinger, terry.reedy, mark.dickinson, pitrou, vstinner, fredrikj
2010-06-21 22:04:05	zooko	set	messageid: <[email protected]>
2010-06-21 22:04:03	zooko	link	issue3439 messages
2010-06-21 22:04:02	zooko	create