On 1/19/06, Fredrik Lundh fredrik@pythonware.com wrote:
Guido van Rossum wrote:
I think we ought to let this sit for a while and come back to it in a few week's time. Is 'base' really the right name? It could just as well be considered a conversion in the other direction.
the same applies to hex and oct, of course.
Right. And this is not a hypothetical issue either -- in Perl, hex and oct *do* work the other way I believe. More reasons to get rid of these in Python 3000. Perhaps we should also get rid of hex/oct lterals?
as for base itself, I'm more concerned about the google product place- ment here. what's next? a froogle builtin?
The default __import__ will use Google Code to locate an appropriate module to import instead of restricting itself to the boring and predictable sys.path.
-- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)