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I'm curious to know if anyone would object to optional
minimum or maximum or both arguments, or even some
additional methods that would result in a potentially
constrained string output from long.tostring()?
If I were to split the functionality into three methods,
they would be as follows...
def atleast(long, atl):
 if atl < 0:
 raise TypeError("atleast requires a positive integer
for a minimum length")
 a = long.tostring()
 la = len(a)
 return (atl-la)*'\o' + a
def atmost(long, atm):
 if atm < 0:
 raise TypeError("atleast requires a positive integer
for a minimum length")
 a = long.tostring()
 la = len(a)
 return a[:atm]
def constrained(long, atl, atm):
 if atm < atl:
 raise TypeError("constrained requires that the
maximum length be larger than the minimum length")
 if atl < 0 or atm < 0:
 raise TypeError("constrained requires that both
arguments are positive")
 a = long.tostring()
 la = len(a)
 return ((atl-la)*'\o' + a)[:atm]
I personally would find use for the above, would anyone else
have use for it?