Does Python need a '>>>' operator?

[Tim Peters]

[Bengt Richter]
> ...
> I just think the signed hex is not terribly useful.

In practice, if I'm working with 300-bit bitsets represented as longs, I
never do hex(x), but hex(x & mask) instead, where mask = ~(-1L << 300) (a
string of 300 low-order bits).  Regardless of x's sign, that "shows the
bits" in a 1-means-on 0-means-off sense.  The key is that I *know* the width
I have in mind, much as hex(int) knows the width of a platform C long today,
so can pull the same trick for regular ints.