Inconsistency in hex()

[Dan Bishop]

Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> hex() of an int appears to return lowercase hex digits, and hex() of a
> long uppercase.
>
> >>> hex(75)
> '0x4b'
> >>> hex(75*256**4)
> '0x4B00000000L'
>
> By accident or design? Apart from the aesthetic value that lowercase hex
> digits are ugly, should we care?
>
> It would also be nice if that trailing L would disappear.

Yes, but that can easily be worked around.

>>> def hex(x):
...    """Return the hexadecimal representation of an integer."""
...    return __builtins__.hex(x).upper().rstrip('L')
...
>>> hex(75)
'0X4B'
>>> hex(75 * 256**4)
'0X4B00000000'