18 Jan
2006
18 Jan
'06
7:09 p.m.
On 1/18/06, Raymond Hettinger raymond.hettinger@verizon.net wrote:
I'd propose bin() to stay in line with the short abbreviated names.
There has been some previous discussion about removing hex()/oct()
from
builtins for Python 3.0, IIRC. I sure don't think bin() belongs
there.
Perhaps introduce a single function, base(val, radix=10, prefix=''), as a universal base converter that could replace bin(), hex(), oct(), etc.
That would give us fewer builtins and provide an inverse for all the int() conversions (i.e. arbitrary bases). Also, it would allow an unprefixed output which is what I usually need.
+1. Differs from Neal's format() function by not magically determining the prefix from the radix which I like.
-Brett