Ezio Melotti added the comment:
Those are invalid octal literals, since the digits 8 and 9 don't exist in octal.
See
http://docs.python.org/2/reference/lexical_analysis.html#grammar-token-octinteger
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nosy: +ezio.melotti
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status: ope
New submission from jose gregorio fernandez trincado:
In [2]: 09
File "", line 1
09
^
SyntaxError: invalid token
Using str() produce SyntaxError too. The same for 08. Figures like 01 and 02
produce the appropriate output.
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