17 Jan
2006
17 Jan
'06
10:22 p.m.
Guido van Rossum wrote: [...]
I'd propose bin() to stay in line with the short abbreviated names.
[...]
The binary type should have a 0b prefix.
It seems odd to me to add both a builtin *and* new syntax for something that's occasionally handy, but only occasionally. If we're going to clutter a module with this function, why not e.g. the math module instead of builtins? I thought the consensus was that we had too many builtins already.
Similarly, the need for 0b101 syntax seems pretty low to me when you can already do int("101", 2).
-Andrew.