Antoine Pitrou added the comment: The format code space is already crowded, and it isn't immediately obvious that '08B' will format the 2's complement representation of the number, as opposed to '08b' which prepends a sign bit. Not to mention that, as Raymond remarked, we cannot use the same convention for hex formatting where 'X' already has a different meaning.
Instead, how about adding an optional argument to bin()? And then we can also do the same for hex(). By the way, I do find annoying the default behaviour of prepending a sign bit on hexadecimal and binary displays (but I never use binary displays, so my annoyance is really with hexadecimal displays). ---------- nosy: +pitrou _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue30571> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
