Loop from 'aaaa' to 'tttt' ?
Steven Taschuk
staschuk at telusplanet.net
Mon Jun 16 13:45:53 EDT 2003
Quoth Lars Schaps:
[...]
> One idea i had is to take a number n with the base of
> 4 and use
>
> t= string.translate( '0123', 'acgt')
> string.translate( n, t)
>
> But i don't know how to convert from base10 to base4.
There's a recipe in the Python Cookbook for base conversion:
<http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/65212>
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