On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 19:58 +0800, Delaney, Timothy (Tim) wrote: > I'm sure that in some version of Python it would have given a > ValueError (due to the default radix being 0) but it appears to have > changed to a default radix of 10 somewhere along the way.
Not even Python 1.5.2 seems to have a problem with leading zeroes: Python 1.5.2 (#1, Nov 6 1999, 14:53:40) [C] on sco_sv3 Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam >>> int("08") 8 -- Carsten Haese http://informixdb.sourceforge.net -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list