Re: [Python-ideas] Add a builtin method to 'int' for base/radix conversion

Yuvgoog Greenle wrote:

Btw, when you say translation table, do you mean just a string? Because a translation table would need to be continuous from 0 to the base so a real dicitionary-esque table may be overkill. The only advantage of a table might be to convert certain digits into multiple bytes (some sort of ad-hoc unicode use case?).

If the translation table is limited to a string, the function would be very limited. For example, it might be useful to use base-change function to convert between an IPv4 address and integer. The common representation of IPv4 address uses base-255 "number" (0.0.0.0-255.255.255.255)