On 1/17/06, Bob Ippolito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There shouldn't be a %B for the same reason there isn't an %O or %D > -- they're all just digits, so there's not a need for an uppercase > variant.
Right. > The difference between hex() and oct() and the proposed binary() is I'd propose bin() to stay in line with the short abbreviated names. > that hex() and oct() return valid Python expressions in that base. > In order for it to make sense, Python would need to grow some syntax. Fair enough. So let's define it. > If Python were to have syntax for binary literals, I'd propose a > trailing b: "1100b". It would be convenient at times to represent > bit flags, but I'm not sure it's worth the syntax change. Typically, suffixes are used to indicated *types*: 12L, 12j, and even 12e0 in some sense. The binary type should have a 0b prefix. Perhaps this could be implemented at the PyCon sprint? -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
