"Eric S. Raymond" wrote:
Greg Wilson <Greg.Wilson@baltimore.com>:
I would like to add a "%b" format for converting numbers to binary format (1's and 0's). I realize this isn't a C-ism, but it would be very useful for teaching purposes, as newcomers find 101101 a lot easier to understand than 0x2D.
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+1. Didactically pretty useful, and the additional code won't boost global complexity much.
Good idea. The only question I have is: in which order will you print the 0s and 1s (MSB->LSB, LSB->MSB, little/big endian) ? I am thinking of adding a bit field type to mxNumber and have the same problem there... -- Marc-Andre Lemburg CEO eGenix.com Software GmbH ______________________________________________________________________ Company & Consulting: http://www.egenix.com/ Python Software: http://www.lemburg.com/python/