On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:46:54 +0800, Delaney, Timothy (Tim) wrote:
> Carsten Haese wrote:
>
>> 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
>
> Yep - appears I must have been misremembering from another language
> (dunno which) or I misinterpreted the docs.
I also remember something in Python about leading zeroes leading to
"surprising" effects... ah, I got it!
>>> int("020")
20
>>> 020
16
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