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Fri Feb 22 03:21:00 CET 2008 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-February/077070.html

Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> [Eric Smith]
>> I'm going to work on backporting PEP 3127, specifically 
>> the hex, oct(), and bin() builtins.
> 
> IMO, these should not be backported. They are strongly
> associated with 3.0's new literal syntax.  They don't
> don't really fit in with 2.6 and don't make 2.6 any more
> attractive.

I'm just going by what's on the spreadsheet.  I assumed that these were 
all vetted.

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pCKY4oaXnT81FrGo3ShGHGg&gid=2

Speaking for myself, these features are generally useful, and are so 
even without the new integer literal syntax.  Their existence would make 
2.6 more attractive to me.

Eric.

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