The two functions are doing something completely different: one is generating a string representation that can be reinput into python, and the other is generating a list of digits (base 2) for further manipulation. I think our current behavior is perfectly acceptable, though adding more documentation is always useful. David
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 10:03 PM, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com>wrote: > On 2/15/13 10:58 PM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > >> That doesn't play well with indexing: >> >> >> sage: bin(-10)[3] >> '1' >> sage: bin(-10)[2] >> 'b' >> > > No, you're right, but it is valid python still: > > >>> -0b1010 > -10 > > It seems to indicate that having a separate sign bit would make sense... > > > Jason > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to > sage-devel+unsubscribe@**googlegroups.com<sage-devel%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/**group/sage-devel?hl=en<http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en> > . > For more options, visit > https://groups.google.com/**groups/opt_out<https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out> > . > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
