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

[Georg Brandl]

Guido van Rossum schrieb:
> On 6/10/07, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Well, maybe it's time to kill __oct__ and __hex__ then.

Sounds fine to me; using __index__ to get at the number to convert would be
ideal.

Georg

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