31 May
2001
31 May
'01
12:39 a.m.
Tim Peters
[Eric S. Raymond]
Is the right answer to add the convert-to-base slot and deprecate the other two?
That would fix "the other" lump here in Python, that e.g.
int("111", 3) 13
has no inverse. string->int is happy with any base in 2..36 inclusive, but int->string is spelled via 3 different builtins covering only 3 of those bases.
That sounds like a strong argument to me. -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a> The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will lose. -- James Earl Jones