On 1/16/06, Bob Ippolito bob@redivi.com wrote:
On Jan 16, 2006, at 9:12 PM, Andrew Bennetts wrote:
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 11:54:05PM -0500, Raymond Hettinger wrote: [...]
That suggests that it would be better to simply add an int method:
x.convert_to_base(7)This seems clear and simple to me. I like it. I strongly suspect the "bright beginners" Alex is interested in would have no trouble using it or finding it.
I don't know about that, all of the methods that int and long currently have are __special__. They'd really need to start with Python 2.5 (assuming int/long grow "public methods" in 2.5) to even think to look there. A format code or a built-in would be more likely to be found, since that's how you convert integers to hex and oct string representations with current Python.
[name for name in dir(0)+dir(0L) if not name.startswith('__')]
If a method is the best solution, then fine, 2.5 is the beginning of methods on int/long. We could do a static method like int.from_str("101", 2) and str.from_int(5, 2) if people don't like the overloading of the constructors. Otherwise add methods like '101'.to_int(2) or 5 .to_str(2) .
-Brett