Inconsistency in hex()

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 20:57:54 -0700, Paul Rubin wrote:

> Steven D'Aprano <steve at REMOVETHIScyber.com.au> writes:
>> >>> hex(75)
>> '0x4b'
>> >>> hex(75*256**4)
>> '0x4B00000000L'
>> 
>> By accident or design? Apart from the aesthetic value that lowercase hex
>> digits are ugly, should we care?
> 
> Use ('%x' % 75) or ('%X' % 75) if you care.


Ah! Now that's the sort of utterly obvious in hindsight thing that
wouldn't have occurred to me in a month of Sundays. That's why c.l.p is so
useful -- lots of people with lots of ways of doing things, all sharing.

Thanks Paul.

(Actually, I don't care at the moment, but when I do, I'll have a fix.)


-- 
Steven.