Georgy Pruss: > Maybe, it's worth to have str(x,8) and str(x,16) instead of oct(x) and hex(x) > and make str() a true inverse function to int()? What then are the results of str(30+44j, 16) str(3.1415926, 8) str([9, 8, 7], 8) str("A", 16) str({"A": 20}, 16) ? Andrew dalke at dalkescientific.com