[Python-3000] Octal

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Mar 16 01:39:12 CET 2007


Patrick Maupin wrote:
> The max 36 radix currently supported by int() is
> numerically suspiciously similar to the sum of the number of ASCII
> digit characters and the number of same-case ASCII letters

What would you use for digits in bases higher
than 36? Most of the ASCII punctuation is already
taken... start plundering unicode for more
alphabets?

--
Greg


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