On Aug 21, 12:48 pm, Derek Martin <c...@pizzashack.org> wrote: > John Nagle wrote: > > Yes, and making lead zeros an error as suggested in PEP 3127 is a > > good idea. It will be interesting to see what bugs that flushes > > out. > James Harris wrote: > > It maybe made sense once but this relic of the past should have been > > consigned to the waste bin of history long ago. > > Sigh. Nonsense. I use octal notation *every day*, for two extremely > prevalent purposes: file creation umask, and Unix file permissions > (i.e. the chmod() function/command).
Unix file permissions maybe made sense once but this relic of the past should have been consigned to the waste bin of history long ago. :) Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
