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		somat 12 hours ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PEP 762 – REPL-acing the default REPL I am curious about your suffixes. I mean, I understand the post fine, but I have never seen the units (Mo, mo) before and am wondering where they came from. I would guess mo is megabytes(megaoctets?) and Mo is gigabytes(is ipython really 15GB? yikes)

Numerlor 12 hours ago | [–]

I think I remember seeing something about MB=Mo in french, the casing is probably safe to ignore in the gp as ipython is definitely not 15gb

mimischi 12 hours ago | | [–]

Looks like it’s octets: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octet_(computing)

BiteCode_dev 12 hours ago | [–]

yeah sorry mb, french comming out

wodenokoto 9 hours ago | [–]

OT, but I love your newsletter!

Didn’t notice your username until you wrote “French”

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