Python-list Digest, Vol 18, Issue 208

[Steven Bethard]

Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote:
> So what's the current state of the "universal-base-prefix" syntax?
> 
> Something like 10x10, 16xA and 8x12?

An interesting thought -- I like the consistency.  On the other hand, I 
have a hard time imagining that this is such a common need that it 
requires syntactic support.  The int type should cover most use cases:

py> int("10", 10)
10
py> int("A", 16)
10
py> int("12", 8)
10

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