Georg Brandl added the comment: It's mostly for consistency. For example, ``int(x, 0)`` is defined by the docs as "interpret x as in a literal". Other bases have special cases as well, e.g. "0x" is accepted by base 16.
In the current version of the conversions, the string is scanned for "_" before doing the more expensive allocation+copy. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue26331> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
