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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Thu Jan 19 20:12:38 CET 2006

On 1/19/06, Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote:

Guido van Rossum wrote:

> I think we ought to let this sit for a while and come back to it in a > few week's time. Is 'base' really the right name? It could just as > well be considered a conversion in the other direction. the same applies to hex and oct, of course.

Right. And this is not a hypothetical issue either -- in Perl, hex and oct do work the other way I believe. More reasons to get rid of these in Python 3000. Perhaps we should also get rid of hex/oct lterals?

as for base itself, I'm more concerned about the google product place- ment here. what's next? a froogle builtin?

The default import will use Google Code to locate an appropriate module to import instead of restricting itself to the boring and predictable sys.path.

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