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Re: chunking a long string?

Date 2013-11-08 15:04 -0600
From Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com>
Subject Re: chunking a long string?
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On 2013-11-09 07:53, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On the flip side, Python gets really awesome at some other things.
> Your operating system probably takes an entire CD to distribute,
> maybe even a DVD, so that's either 700MB or 4.7GB, give or take.
> Look how efficiently Python can represent it:
> 
> >>> sys.getsizeof(os)  
> 36

Someone has been hanging out too much over on that thread about
compressing random data ;-)

-tkc

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chunking a long string? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-11-08 12:48 -0500
  Re: chunking a long string? wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2013-11-08 12:43 -0800
    Re: chunking a long string? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-09 07:53 +1100
    Re: chunking a long string? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-11-08 20:57 +0000
    Re: chunking a long string? Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2013-11-08 15:04 -0600
    Re: chunking a long string? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-11-08 21:06 +0000
    Re: chunking a long string? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-09 08:04 +1100
    Re: chunking a long string? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-09 08:17 +1100
    Re: chunking a long string? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-11-09 00:46 +0000
      Re: chunking a long string? wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2013-11-09 00:14 -0800
        Re: chunking a long string? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-09 19:26 +1100
          Re: chunking a long string? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-11-09 09:37 -0500
            Re: chunking a long string? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-10 02:02 +1100
              Re: chunking a long string? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-11-09 10:21 -0500
                Re: chunking a long string? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-10 02:30 +1100
                Re: chunking a long string? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-11-09 10:35 -0500
            Re: chunking a long string? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-11-09 15:37 +0000
              Re: chunking a long string? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-10 09:14 +1100
                Re: chunking a long string? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-11-10 06:39 +0000
                Re: chunking a long string? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-10 19:46 +1100
        Re: chunking a long string? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-11-09 10:13 +0000
  Re: chunking a long string? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-11-09 00:54 +0000

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