[Python-Dev] str with base

[Aahz]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2006, Jeremy Hylton wrote:
>
> I'm not sure I believe this should be a builtin.  I think the
> threshold for new builtins ought to be nearly as high as the threshold
> for new keywords.  Or the proposer ought to make an argument about
> what the function should not go in a module.

The way I'd put it, any function that wants to go in builtins should
require a formal PEP.

And in case it isn't clear, I'm +1 on deprecating oct()/hex() (or moving
them into another module as convenience functions for base() -- just to
make conversion easier).
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