%x unsigned?

[D'Arcy J.M. Cain]

On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:00:07 +0100
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic at xemacs.org> wrote:
> The %x conversion specifier is documented in
> http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq-strings.html as "Unsigned
> hexadecimal (lowercase)."  What does "unsigned" refer to?
> 
> >>> '0x%x' % 10
> '0xa'
> >>> '0x%x' % -10
> '0x-a'
> 
> Is this a bug or is %x misdocumented?

I think it is working exactly as documented.  It says that it displays
unsigned numbers.  If you give it a negative number you get undefined
behaviour.  Are you saying that the docs could be a little clearer?

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