More random python observations from a perl programmer

[Lars Damerow]

On 19 Aug 1999, Tom Christiansen wrote:

> No, that's not it.  Perl's hex takes a hex number and returns 
> a decimal one; same with oct.  Python's is the reverse.  Very weird.
> 
>     echo 'print oct(12)' | python
>     14
> 
>     echo 'print oct(12)' | perl -l
>     10
> 
> See what I mean?

I don't consider that weird at all.  Take casting, for example, in any number
of languages.  If, in C++, I say int(var), that takes var and casts it to be an
integer.  I might say long(num) in Python, which says "Turn num into a long."

In that case, doesn't it make sense that hex(12) would take the decimal number
12 and return '0xc'?  That oct(153) returns '0231'?  Functions and methods are
typically named for the action they perform, not the data they're accepting.

-lars

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