string.py

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <14507.17447.857827.44321 at anthem.cnri.reston.va.us>,
Barry A. Warsaw <bwarsaw at cnri.reston.va.us> wrote:
>
>>>>>> "A" == Alex  <alex at somewhere.round.here> writes:
>
>    >> how does one do 'ff'.atoi(16) using 'ff'.int()?
>
>    A> Aahz, my impression was that he was talking about functions
>    A> available in the string module, not really methods of a string
>    A> object.
>
>Actually, he's talking about the builtin int(), float(), and long()
>functions.  We decided that those subsumed all the functionality of
>string.atoi(), etc. so it didn't add anything to make string methods
>of atoi, etc.

Well, int() definitely does *NOT* subsume all functionality of
string.atoi() (note the "16" radix above; string.atoi('ff',16) in
1.5.2), so I think that atoi() needs to be a string method.  If you've
got atoi(), might as well add the others for consistency.

I'm assuming, of course, that the revised 1.5.2 documents are correct
and that int() still does not take a radix.
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