[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Skip> A shortcoming in int() hardly seems like a good reason to mess > Skip> with str(). > > Gareth> How's it a shortcoming in int() that it doesn't do anything > Gareth> with, say, int(2.345,19)? > > My reasoning was that just because int() was written to ignore the second > arg depending on type (the "shortcoming") doesn't mean that str() should as > well.
"ignore" is perhaps the wrong word: >>> int(1.0, 1) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? TypeError: int() can't convert non-string with explicit base </F> _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
