On 1/19/06, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guido van Rossum wrote: > > > I think we ought to let this sit for a while and come back to it in a > > few week's time. Is 'base' really the right name? It could just as > > well be considered a conversion in the other direction. > > the same applies to hex and oct, of course.
Right. And this is not a hypothetical issue either -- in Perl, hex and oct *do* work the other way I believe. More reasons to get rid of these in Python 3000. Perhaps we should also get rid of hex/oct lterals? > as for base itself, I'm more concerned about the google product place- > ment here. what's next? a froogle builtin? The default __import__ will use Google Code to locate an appropriate module to import instead of restricting itself to the boring and predictable sys.path. -- --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
