[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Peter Hansen wrote: > >>But why would anyone want to create numeric literals for credit card >>numbers? >> > May be for space saving ? But storage space being so cheap, this is not > a very good reason, but still a reason.
Space saving where? Why would you have any credit card numbers stored in any application? Even a credit card company isn't going to write code that has the numbers stored as *literals*! There's only one place I can think of right now where you might want that: in automated tests for code that processes credit card numbers. And you definitely do not need to "save space" in that situation... -Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list