Thus spoke Fredrik Lundh (on 2006-09-28 23:35): > Mirco Wahab wrote: > >> - why doesn't have Python such a simple and useful thing as to_binstr(...) > > useful? really? for what?
I don't really know, but according to google, people often ask exactly for that and there is no reason at all why one shouldn't expect to get a /bit string/ from "%b" %. So if people think it's badly needed, how couldn't it be *not* useful then? ;-) It feels to me (as it does sometimes when diving into Python, to be honest) simply as a shortcoming, - and the ter- nary operator included in 2.5 was imho a huge step forward, next will be mutable strings and arrays will be 'called arrays' somewhere ... ;-) (maybe somebody reverses the -v/-V switch too, hey) Regards Mirco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
