Guido van Rossum wrote: > This has been brought up many times before. The value of bin() is > really rather minimal except when you're just learning about binary > numbers; and then writing it yourself is a useful exercise. > > I'm not saying that bin() is useless -- but IMO its (small) value > doesn't warrant making, maintaining and documenting a new built-in > function.
And for some reason no one wants to propose it for any particular stdlib module... -- Ian Bicking / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://blog.ianbicking.org _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
