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

Bob Ippolito bob at redivi.com
Fri Jan 20 03:11:19 CET 2006


On Jan 19, 2006, at 4:17 PM, Thomas Wouters wrote:

On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 06:56:23AM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote:

I'm not aware of anyone that would miss octal literals, Except anyone who uses os.chmod. I would be mighty sad if we removed octal and hexadecimal literals for 'cleanliness' reasons alone.

I have a LOT of code that has hex literals, and a little code with
oct literals (as you say, just os.chmod). I'm -1 on removing hex and
oct, and +0 on adding binary.

As a point of reference, both Perl and Ruby support 0b110 binary
literal syntax

$ ruby -e 'print 0b110, "\n"' 6 $ perl -e 'print 0b110 . "\n"' 6

-bob



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