Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> writes: > About the only place one commonly sees leading zeros on decimal > numbers, in my experience, is zero-filled COBOL data decks (and since > classic COBOL stores in BCD anyway... binary (usage is > computational/comp-1) was a later add-on to the data specification model > as I recall...)
A more common case is dates. I've seen people trip over this writing things like xxx = [ date(2009, 10, 12), date(2009, 12, 26), date(2010, 02, 09), ] -M- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list