On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:00:07 +0100 Hrvoje Niksic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The %x conversion specifier is documented in > http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq-strings.html as "Unsigned > hexadecimal (lowercase)." What does "unsigned" refer to? > > >>> '0x%x' % 10 > '0xa' > >>> '0x%x' % -10 > '0x-a' > > Is this a bug or is %x misdocumented?
I think it is working exactly as documented. It says that it displays unsigned numbers. If you give it a negative number you get undefined behaviour. Are you saying that the docs could be a little clearer? -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Democracy is three wolves http://www.druid.net/darcy/ | and a sheep voting on +1 416 425 1212 (DoD#0082) (eNTP) | what's for dinner. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
