[issue5749] Allow bin() to have an optional Total Bits argument.

2009-04-13 Thread MechPaul
New submission from MechPaul mechp...@gmail.com: As it stands right now, bin() only shows the minimum number of bits to display the number, however I think having a Total Bits argument would be very, very useful for bin(). bin(value, [Total bits to display]) Total bits to display is an integer

[issue5675] string module requires bytes type for maketrans, but calling method on regular string does not

2009-04-02 Thread MechPaul
New submission from MechPaul mechp...@gmail.com: I was making a simple Caesarian cipher when this issue came up. #Following code here import string CAESER_SHIFT = 13 TranslationTableUpper = [string.ascii_uppercase[(index + CAESER_SHIFT) % 26] for index in range(26)] TranslationTableLower