itoa

[Michael Hudson]

m.faassen at vet.uu.nl (Martijn Faassen) writes:

> Stuart Reynolds <S.I.Reynolds at cs.bham.ac.uk> wrote:
> > Is there an integer to ascii (itoa) function in Python? I need to
> > convert integers into various different bases (but to binary, in
> > particular). Most languages come provided with an itoa-like function but
> > I can't seem to find one in the Python API.
> 
> Replying again -- I'm reading the standard library and you might find
> the string.atoi() function useful if you're converting to different
> bases and such:
> 
> >>> string.atoi("11", 2)
> 3
> 

>>> int("23",4)
11

This is with a cvs python, but I think the change went in between 1.5
and 1.5.1.

Cheers,
M.

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