Too much builtins (was Re: Python's simplicity philosophy

[Ville Vainio]

"Andrew Dalke" <adalke at mindspring.com> writes:

> 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)
> ?

TypeError?

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