On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 08:25:45PM +0000, Benjamin Peterson wrote: > > More than flushing out bugs, it will *cause* them in ubiquity, > > requiring likely terabytes of code to be poured over and fixed. > > 2to3, however, can fix it for you extreme easily.
Sure, but that won't stop people who've been writing code for 20 years from continuing to type octal that way... Humans can learn fairly easily, but UN-learning is often much harder, especially when the behavior to be unlearned is still very commonly in use. Anyway, whatever. This change (along with a few of the other seemingly arbitrary changes in 3.x) is annoying, but Python is still one of the best languages to code in for any multitude of problems. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D
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