Raymond> My reason is that I've rolled-my-own more times than I can Raymond> count but infrequently enough to where it was easier to Raymond> re-write than to search for the previous use.
Maybe a bin() builtin would be better. Even better it seems to me would be to add a method to ints and longs that returns a string formatted in a base between 2 and 36 (then deprecate hex and oct). Like Jeremy, I wonder what str([1,2], 4) means.
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