text_combined: david cournapeau xlicqarmediakyotouacjp greg ewing wrote blarg well think wording part standard braindamaged word byte already preexisting meaning outside c c standard shouldnt redefining purposes like financial document defines dollar unit currency use country concerned thoroughly confusing unnecessary particularly since seem defining byte mean thing char use term char first place totally different concepts byte c type unit one returned sizeof operator one char occupies one byte memory memory conceptually totally different c point view least example c impose sizeofunsigned type sizeofsigned type type one byte one char unsigned char would byte unsigned char char would obviously wrong cheers david _______________________________________________ python3000 mailing list smsbmo9552pythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopython3000 unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspython3000python300040tangomucom fri 08 aug 2008 031409 0900 python3000 sizeofsize_t sizeoflong