18 Jan
2006
18 Jan
'06
12:28 a.m.
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 09:23:29AM -0500, Jason Orendorff wrote:
I think a method 5664400.to_base(13) sounds nice.
[And others suggested int-methods too]
I would like to point out that this is almost, but not quite, entirely as inapropriate as using str(). Integers don't have a base. String representations of integers -- and indeed, numbers in general, as the Python tutorial explains in Appendix B -- have a base. Adding such a method to integers (and, I presume, longs) would beg the question why floats, Decimals and complex numbers don't have them.
In-favour-of-%2b-ly y'rs,
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