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Tue Jan 17 16:38:42 CET 2006 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-January/059833.html

    Alex> Identically the same situation as for int: the base argument is
    Alex> only accepted if the first argument is a str (not a float, etc).
    Alex> Just the same way, the base argument to str will only be accepted
    Alex> if the first argument is an int (not a float, etc).
    >> 
    Skip> A shortcoming in int() hardly seems like a good reason to mess
    Skip> with str().

    Gareth> How's it a shortcoming in int() that it doesn't do anything
    Gareth> with, say, int(2.345,19)?

My reasoning was that just because int() was written to ignore the second
arg depending on type (the "shortcoming") doesn't mean that str() should as
well.

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