On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Guido van Rossum wrote: >> Just a thougth: if it's true that those using hex() and %x are more >> interested in the bit values than the numerical value of the whole number, >> would a format like ~0xff000 be easier to interpret (and stop this debate) ? > >Hmm... It has a perverse Pythonic smell... But I fear it would >introduce more backwards incompatibilities, because it would have to >apply to longs as well, and hence change the output whenever a >negative long is converted to hex or octal. (And what about %u? >Should "%u" % -1 return "~0" too?) Didn't you say "%u" would be going away ? You're right about octal, that would be nice to change, too. Maybe the right time to do the change would be when the L goes away, since that would be similarly invasive ? /Paul
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