Sandro Tosi added the comment: I tend to agree with Terry that this report can be closed: base 16 is quite known and it's high likely that if you know what hexadecimal is, you also aware of the concept of "base X" and viceversa. If no-one objects, I'd just close it. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <report at bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13799> _______________________________________