[Nick Coghlan]
... I quite like the suggestion of using 'math.base' rather than a builtin, but there are still issues to be figured out there: - the math module is currently a thin wrapper around C's "math.h". Do we really want to change that by adding more methods?
That's not an issue. Some math functions go beyond C's (like 2-argument log(), and all flavors of log() returning sensible results for inputs larger than the largest C double), and some functions aren't part of C at all (like math.radians()). A stronger reason to keep it out of `math` is that all functions there operate on, and return, floats: it's a bizarre place to put an integer->string function.
- is 'base' the right name? - should we allow a "digits" argument, or just the radix argument?
Add to_base(self, radix=16) as a new numeric method. End of problem ;-)