[Python-3000] PEP 3127 (integer literal syntax) -- any takers?

[Nick Coghlan]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On 6/10/07, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
>> Guido van Rossum schrieb:
>>> Very cool; thanks!!! No problems so far.
>>>
>>> I wonder if we need a bin() built-in that is to 0b like oct() is to 0o
>>> and hex() to 0x?
>> Would that also require a __bin__() special method?
> 
> If the other two use it, we might as well model it that way.
> 

I must admit I've never understood why hex() and oct() don't just go 
through __int__() (Note that the integer formats are all defined as 
going through int() in PEP 3101).

If we only want them to work for true integers, then we have __index__() 
available now.

Cheers,
Nick.

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