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

Steven Bethard steven.bethard at gmail.com
Wed Jan 18 17:55:49 CET 2006

[Raymond]

Perhaps introduce a single function, base(val, radix=10, prefix=''), as a universal base converter that could replace bin(), hex(), oct(), etc.

+1 on introducing base()

[Skip]

Would it (should it) work with floats, decimals, complexes? I presume it would work with ints and longs.

While support for floats, decimals, etc. might be nice (and I certainly wouldn't complain if someone wanted to supply the patch) I don't think those features should be necessary for base()'s initial introduction. If they're there, great, but if not, I don't think that should hold up the patch...

STeVe

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