On 6/10/07, Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guido van Rossum wrote: > > On 6/10/07, Georg Brandl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Guido van Rossum schrieb: > >>> Very cool; thanks!!! No problems so far. > >>> > >>> I wonder if we need a bin() built-in that is to 0b like oct() is to 0o > >>> and hex() to 0x? > >> Would that also require a __bin__() special method? > > > > If the other two use it, we might as well model it that way. > > I must admit I've never understood why hex() and oct() don't just go > through __int__() (Note that the integer formats are all defined as > going through int() in PEP 3101). > > If we only want them to work for true integers, then we have __index__() > available now.
Well, maybe it's time to kill __oct__ and __hex__ then. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
