James Harris wrote: > I have no idea why Ada which uses the # also apparently uses it to end > a number > > 2#1011#, 8#7621#, 16#c26b#
Interesting. They do it because of this example from <http://archive.adaic.com/standards/83rat/html/ratl-02-01.html#2.1>: 2#1#E8 -- an integer literal of value 256 where the E prefixes a power-of-2 exponent, and can't be taken as a digit of the radix. That is to say 16#1#E2 would also equal 256, since it's 1*16**2 . Mel. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
