Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!news2.euro.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed1.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.032 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.94; '*S*': 0.00; 'anyway.': 0.05; 'cache': 0.07; 'odd': 0.07; 'bytes.': 0.09; 'subject:How': 0.10; 'cc:addr :python-list': 0.11; 'cc:name:python list': 0.16; 'harvard': 0.16; 'nowadays': 0.16; 'quantum': 0.16; 'variants': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'bit': 0.19; 'separate': 0.22; 'cc:addr:python.org': 0.22; 'bytes': 0.24; 'integer': 0.24; 'mon,': 0.24; 'cc:2**0': 0.24; '>': 0.26; 'task': 0.26; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'message-id:@mail.gmail.com': 0.30; 'level.': 0.33; 'date:': 0.34; 'subject:from': 0.34; 'received:google.com': 0.35; 'really': 0.36; 'machine.': 0.36; 'sequence': 0.36; "didn't": 0.36; 'email addr:python.org': 0.37; 'architecture': 0.38; 'thank': 0.38; 'pm,': 0.38; 'von': 0.38; 'skip:_ 30': 0.39; 'subject:': 0.39; 'though,': 0.39; 'how': 0.40; 'most': 0.60; 'you.': 0.62; 'email addr:gmail.com': 0.63; 're:': 0.63; 'today': 0.64; 'stand': 0.64; 'different': 0.65; 'email name:python-list': 0.65; 'computers': 0.72; 'subject:get': 0.81; 'carlos': 0.91; '2013': 0.98 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=ir05yJSvMzMDzMiX+kxBAOl0A3I6PjOsaG78gyUsmAI=; b=n/SOru7dcW48HTatfJVtMBFXXSNUiiwrm+NOtK/3dIz/NPx7lv5bLC3F7F7syKWCyF 4oLRbwqt5IJGqw99RKUUein4AkNDUDPHN+N4yU3swTDYnQa2c66lo6VrUSN1GZpBe0w+ zwLiWHXVSM6kCBBi7E7SdsxFwvevj6l7ehoC7T1xhGIgliWABpdVJIf5tASiUlt8LKrl ZklyQ1CwyWFwQ7MT3L+xjOQTs9YYmznsthBk683gyjrHzxqoMnOQYTvKpLgVKRDtNfeC vSneUfK1w5bBpekaLyvqMcikvXW5lFiwIgSFYACvwcpJyki8LstNT2UPXR0l+XkUrh3p zoBA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.49.39.68 with SMTP id n4mr23840976qek.44.1370303246427; Mon, 03 Jun 2013 16:47:26 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 16:47:26 -0700 Subject: Re: How to get an integer from a sequence of bytes From: Dan Stromberg To: Carlos Nepomuceno Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=047d7bd769343d054604de48968b Cc: Python List X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 62 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1370303255 news.xs4all.nl 15898 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:59340 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:46825 --047d7bd769343d054604de48968b Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Carlos Nepomuceno < carlosnepomuceno@outlook.com> wrote: > ________________________________ > > Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 15:41:41 -0700 > > Subject: Re: How to get an integer from a sequence of bytes > > From: drsalists@gmail.com > > To: python-list@python.org > [...] > > Today though, it would be difficult to sell a conventional (Von > > Neumann) computer that didn't have 8 bit bytes. Quantum computers > > would still sell if they were odd this way - they're going to be really > > different anyway. > > Nowadays it would be a hard task to find a Von Neumann architecture > machine. > > Most of current CPUs are variants of the Harvard architecture: they > separate instructions from data at the cache level. > I stand corrected. Thank you. --047d7bd769343d054604de48968b Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable --047d7bd769343d054604de48968b--