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Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 17:58:04 +1000
Subject: Re: A few questiosn about encoding
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On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 5:42 PM, =CD=E9=EA=FC=EB=E1=EF=F2 =CA=EF=FD=F1=E1=
=F2 <support@superhost.gr> wrote:
> On 13/6/2013 10:11 =F0=EC, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> No! That creates a string from 16474 in base two:
>> '0b100000001011010'
>
> I disagree here.
> 16474 is a number in base 10. Doing bin(16474) we get the binary
> representation of number 16474 and not a string.
> Why you say we receive a string while python presents a binary number?

You can disagree all you like. Steven cited a simple point of fact,
one which can be verified in any Python interpreter. Nikos, you are
flat wrong here; bin(16474) creates a string.

ChrisA