Inverse of int(s, base)?

[olli at secnetix.de]

Hi,

Is there an inverse function of int(s, base) where base
can be any number up to 36?  I've searched the library
reference up and down, but haven't found anything.

For example, I need to work with base-24 numbers, which
can be parsed nicely with x = int(s, 24), but there
doesn't seem to be a way to convert integers back to
their base-24 representation as a string.  (Of course,
I can define my own function in Python to do that, but
I wonder if there's a more efficient way.)

Best regards
   Oliver

PS:  This is what I'm using right now.

import string
str_digits = string.digits + string.ascii_lowercase

def str_base (x, base):
        result = ""
        while x:
                result = str_digits[x % base] + result
                x /= base
        return result or "0"

>>> print str_base(2065027084, 24)
aj83kb4
>>> int("aj83kb4", 24)
2065027084

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