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[Python-Dev] str with base

[Python-Dev] str with base [Python-Dev] str with baseBarry Warsaw barry at python.org
Fri Jan 20 05:29:11 CET 2006
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 06:56 +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote:

> I'm not aware of anyone that would miss octal literals, but there are plenty 
> of hardware weenies like me that would find "int("DEAD", 16)" less convenient 
> than "0xDEAD".

Although octal literals is handy for things like os.chmod().  Unix
weenies shouldn't be totally forgotten in P3K.  I'm also for keeping
hex() and oct() although if you want to move them out of builtins,
that's fine.  +0b1 for binary literals and %b.

-Barry

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