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

Bob Ippolito bob at redivi.com
Tue Jan 17 06:28:10 CET 2006

On Jan 16, 2006, at 9:12 PM, Andrew Bennetts wrote:

On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 11:54:05PM -0500, Raymond Hettinger wrote: [...]

That suggests that it would be better to simply add an int method:

x.converttobase(7) This seems clear and simple to me. I like it. I strongly suspect the "bright beginners" Alex is interested in would have no trouble using it or finding it.

I don't know about that, all of the methods that int and long
currently have are special. They'd really need to start with
Python 2.5 (assuming int/long grow "public methods" in 2.5) to even
think to look there. A format code or a built-in would be more
likely to be found, since that's how you convert integers to hex and
oct string representations with current Python.

[name for name in dir(0)+dir(0L) if not name.startswith('__')] []

-bob

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