Jack wrote:
> The arbitrary base case isn't even academic
> or we would see homework questions about it
> on c.l.py. No one asks about
> hex or octal because they are there.
I have wanted base-36 far more often than I've
wanted base-8. I haven't needed any base
(except 10) often enough to justify putting it
in builtins rather than a stdlib module. I do like
the idea of adding Raymond's
def base(number, base, prefix)
to the stdlib (possibly in math).
-jJ
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