Yuv Gre <ubershme...@gmail.com> added the comment: Use case - 'hashing' a counter for example like video ID's in youtube. One could use a regular int internally and publish a shorter 62-base id for links.
Guido said on http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006- January/059923.html "I think we ought to let this sit for a while and come back to it in a few week's time. Is 'base' really the right name? It could just as well be considered a conversion in the other direction. In common usage, 'base' and 'radix' are about synonymous (except no-one uses radix). Pethaps the 2nd argument should not be a keyword argument? Also, this discussion made me wonder if conversions using other bases than 10 should even be built-ins. A library module seems a more appropriate place" I'm hoping 182 weeks of clarity could help iron this issue out. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6783> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
