jf...@ms4.hinet.net writes:
> MRAB at 2018/12/8 UTC+8 AM10:04:51 wrote:
>> Before Python 3, a leading 0 in an integer literal would indicate an
>> octal (base 8) number.
>
> So, the reason is historical.
>
>> The old form is now invalid in order to reduce the chance of bugs.
>
> I encounter this problem on trying to do something like this:
> eval('03 + 00 + 15')
> It takes me some efforts to get rid of those leading zeros:-(
>
> Hope someday 03 can be accepted as a valid decimal number in Python 3.
>
> Thank you for explaining.
>
> --Jach
I'd say we *really* don't want that. We'd have old C programmers (like
me) expecting 010 to mean 8, and getting really confused...
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