[Python-Dev] str with base (original) (raw)

Raymond Hettinger raymond.hettinger at verizon.net
Tue Jan 17 05:13:27 CET 2006

I wish you had an argument better than "every bright beginner assumes it exists". :-)

But (unlike for some other things that bright beginners might assume) I don't think there's a deep reason why this couldn't exist. The only reasons I can come up with is "because input and output are notoriously asymmetric in Python" and "because nobody submitted a patch". :-)

My reason is that I've rolled-my-own more times than I can count but infrequently enough to where it was easier to re-write than to search for the previous use.

Another quick thought: I presume that only the str() builtin would change and that the underlying str slot would continue to be hard-wired to the (reprfunc) signature.

Raymond

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