On 21 Aug, 00:59, James Harris <james.harri...@googlemail.com> wrote:
... > > Is there some magic to make the 2.x CPython interpreter to ignore the > > annoying octal notation? > > I'd really like 012 to be "12" and not "10". > > This is (IMHO) a sad hangover from C (which took it from B ... This seemed worth writing up so I've taken the snipped comments and posted them at http://sundry.wikispaces.com/octal-zero-prefix The idea is that the page can be pointed to any time the issue comes up again. I've also fleshed the comments out a bit. James -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
