ZeD wrote:
> thebjorn wrote:
>
>>>>>> int("020")
>>> 20
>>>>>> 020
>>> 16
>>
>> You can get the latter behavior using eval:
>
> why using eval when int has the "base" optional parameter?
>
>>>> int("020")
> 20
>>>> int("020", 8)
> 16
>>>> int("09", 8)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 8: '09'
The whole point of this was I misremembered what the base/radix optional
parameter of int() defaulted to - I thought it was 0, then when I
checked in Python 2.5 I thought it must have been 0 in an earlier
version.
Tim Delaney
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