On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 21:17:07 +1000, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>hex() of an int appears to return lowercase hex digits, and hex() of a >long uppercase. > >>>> hex(75) >'0x4b' >>>> hex(75*256**4) >'0x4B00000000L' > >By accident or design? Apart from the aesthetic value that lowercase hex >digits are ugly, should we care? > >It would also be nice if that trailing L would disappear. > >>> '%010X'% 0x12345678 '0012345678' >>> '%010X'% 75 '000000004B' >>> '%010X'% (75*256**4) '4B00000000' >>> '%010X'% (-75*256**4) '-4B00000000' >>> '%010X'% (-75) '-00000004B' I've ranted about the lack of a natural format for showing the hex of a canonical twos-complement representation of a negative number, but I guess I'll let it go with this mention ;-) BTW, yeah, I know it's not so hard to write >>> '%010X'% (-75 &0xffffffffff) 'FFFFFFFFB5' >>> '%010X'% (-75*256**4 &0xffffffffff) 'B500000000' or a helper or a str subclass that does __mod__ differently but that's not with the batteries ;-/ Regards, Bengt Richter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
