base converter

[Nick Perkins]

...be careful what you ask for!

..i can't follow that at all--are you a perl programmer?


"Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk" <qrczak at knm.org.pl> wrote in message
news:slrn.pl.9ihj95.lfq.qrczak at qrnik.zagroda...
> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 10:15:21 GMT, Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com>
pisze:
>
> > (still waiting for someone to come up with a one-liner using
> > list comprehensions ;-)
>
> As you wish :-)
>
> from __future__ import nested_scopes
> import string
> def fix(f): return lambda x: f(fix(f), x)
> def BaseConvert(x, b, digits=string.digits+string.uppercase):
>     return [digits[d%b] for d in
>       fix(lambda iter, y: y and iter(y/b)+[y] or [])(x) or [0]]
>
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