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

Patrick Maupin pmaupin at gmail.com
Fri Mar 16 03:51:28 CET 2007

On 3/15/07, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

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?

I'm not suggesting that the number of supported bases should grow AT ALL. What I am suggesting is that it is obviously very tempting, since it is easy to do, to support bases up to 36.

The PEP I am working on will recommend that we not remove this capability from int(string, base) because that might be gratuitous breakage, but that we not give in to the same temptation for int(string, 0) or for the language syntax. I have not seen any real requests for any bases other than 2, 8, 10, or 16.

Regards, Pat

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