[Python-Dev] str with base

Andrew Bennetts andrew-pythondev at puzzling.org
Wed Jan 18 07:22:27 CET 2006


Guido van Rossum wrote:
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> I'd propose bin() to stay in line with the short abbreviated names.
> 
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> The binary type should have a 0b prefix.

It seems odd to me to add both a builtin *and* new syntax for something that's
occasionally handy, but only occasionally.  If we're going to clutter a module
with this function, why not e.g. the math module instead of builtins?  I thought
the consensus was that we had too many builtins already.

Similarly, the need for 0b101 syntax seems pretty low to me when you can
already do int("101", 2).

-Andrew.



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