On 02/08/2013 20:05, Harald Schilly wrote:
On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 6:52 PM, Robert Bradshaw
<rober...@math.washington.edu> wrote:
A leading 0 means octal in Python

ah! thanks! unwitting me wasn't aware of that …

h

Notice that in Python 3 only the 0o777 (and 0O777) syntax is allowed:
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3127/#removal-of-old-octal-syntax

A quote from that PEP: "Usage has shown that the historical method of specifying an octal number is confusing..."

TB

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