[Python-Dev] str with base

[Gareth McCaughan]

On Tuesday 2006-01-17 15:19, skip at pobox.com wrote:

>     Alex> Identically the same situation as for int: the base argument is
>     Alex> only accepted if the first argument is a str (not a float, etc).
>     Alex> Just the same way, the base argument to str will only be accepted
>     Alex> if the first argument is an int (not a float, etc).
> 
> A shortcoming in int() hardly seems like a good reason to mess with str().

How's it a shortcoming in int() that it doesn't do anything with,
say, int(2.345,19)? (What would you like it to do?) Or are you
saying that the fact that int(<a string>) lets you specify a base
to interpret the string in is itself a shortcoming, and if so
why?

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g