17 Jan
2006
17 Jan
'06
3:22 p.m.
On Tuesday 2006-01-17 15:19, skip@pobox.com wrote:
Alex> Identically the same situation as for int: the base argument is Alex> only accepted if the first argument is a str (not a float, etc). Alex> Just the same way, the base argument to str will only be accepted Alex> if the first argument is an int (not a float, etc).
A shortcoming in int() hardly seems like a good reason to mess with str().
How's it a shortcoming in int() that it doesn't do anything with, say, int(2.345,19)? (What would you like it to do?) Or are you saying that the fact that int(<a string>) lets you specify a base to interpret the string in is itself a shortcoming, and if so why? -- g