Hello
Ive recently found that you cannot type anything over 7 into a number that is preceded with a 0. ex: >>> 01 1 >>> 07 7 >>> 08 SyntaxError: invalid token >>> 011 9 >>> 017 15 >>> 077 63 >>> 078 SyntaxError: invalid token
I know this isnt that big of a problem, but i cannot think of one reason why they would not allow numbers preceded with a 0 to have a number higher then a 7 in them... And it seems very inconsistant to me...
Is there a reason for this?
Yup. ;-)
Numbers beginning with a `0' are in octal (base 8), so only the digits `0' through `7' are valid.
HTH, --ag
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