[Python-3000] Octal (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Mar 16 01:39:12 CET 2007


Patrick Maupin wrote:

The max 36 radix currently supported by int() is numerically suspiciously similar to the sum of the number of ASCII digit characters and the number of same-case ASCII letters

What would you use for digits in bases higher than 36? Most of the ASCII punctuation is already taken... start plundering unicode for more alphabets?

-- Greg



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