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

Ian Bicking ianb at colorstudy.com
Tue Jan 17 11:36:54 CET 2006

Bob Ippolito wrote:

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.

How about just stuffing some function in the math module? Everything in that module works on floats, but it seems incidental to me; I'm pretty sure I've even looked in that module for such a function before. But it's such an obscure need that only comes up in the kind of algorithms students write, that it just seems odd and unnecessary to put it in str() which is so much more general than int() is.

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