Bug in the documentation (?)

[Pawel Oleksik]

Hi, Snake Tamers

According to http://www.python.org/doc/2.4.1/lib/typesseq-strings.html (and
next releases):

"""
The conversion types are:

	Conversion 	Meaning 				Notes
		[...]
		x 	Unsigned hexadecimal (lowercase). 	(2)
		X 	Unsigned hexadecimal (uppercase). 	(2)

"""


But actually:

Python 2.4.1 (#1, Apr 10 2005, 22:30:36) 
[GCC 3.3.5] on linux2
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>>> '%x' % -123456
'-1e240'

so it is a _signed_ hexadecimal.
However, sometimes it would be convinient to get the unisgned conversion
(especially, since id(..) can return a negative value).
This way is rather clumsy:

>>> '%x' % (id('abcd')+0x100000000)
'b7b75380'

Do you see any better solution?

p.o.