[Jeremy Hylton]
> The concept of base is closely related to ints, and the base argument
> is useful for a large percentage of the types that int accepts. It is
> not related to strings, in general, and applies to only one of the
> types it accepts. In one case "not a float, etc." applies to a very
> limited set of types, in the other case it applies to every
> conceivable type (except int).
That suggests that it would be better to simply add an int method:
x.convert_to_base(7)
Raymond
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