>>>>f(01) > 43 >>>>f(02) > 44 >>>>f(010) > 50 >>>>42+010 > 50
Literal ints with lead 0 are interpreted as octal numbers (base 8) instead of decimal numbers (base 10). 01==1 either way, but 010 == 8. >>> 010 8 0x (zero eks) prefix indicate hexadecimal numbers: >>> 0xff 255 Terry Jan Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
