Re: [Python-ideas] str(<int>, base=<int>) as complement to int(<str>, base=<int>)

On 11/1/07, Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:

We go over this about once a year. The conclusion is always the same: there isn't enough use for bases other than 2, 8, 10, 16 to bother including anything, and these are already covered by bin(), oct(), str() and hex(). (bin() is in 3.0 and to be backported to 2.6.)

Of course, if part of the deal were dropping bin, oct, and hex, that might be a good trade. But it may already be too late even for Py3. -jJ