Steven D'Aprano wrote: [...] > Likewise, base conversion into arbitrary bases is not, in my opinion, > common enough a task that support for it needs to be built into the syntax > for literals. If somebody cares enough about it, write a module to handle > it and try to get it included with the Python standard modules. > In fact Icon managed to offer a syntax that allowed every base up to 36 to be used: an "r" was used to indicate the radix of the literal, so hex 453FF would be represented as "16r453FF". This worked fine. Upper- and lower-case letters werw regarded as equivalent.
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