Does Python need a '>>>' operator?

[Greg Ewing]

Bengt Richter wrote:
> 
> newhex(+7) => 0x7 # implied extension of msb => 0x000...007
> newhex(-7) => 0x9 # implied extension of msb => 0xfff...ff9

I think that would be very confusing. It's pretty
subtle that the MSB of the binary equivalent of the
first hex digit tells you whether the original number
was positive or negative.

If we were to have something like this, I would rather
see

  newhex(+7) => 0x07
  newhex(-7) => 0xF9

i.e. the leading hex digit is always either 0 or F.

Then I would also want an extra arg to hex() for
specifying how many digits I want.

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