Christian Heimes added the comment:
It's nota bug, it's a feature. Python 2.x interprets numers with a 0 prefix as
octal numbers. '8' and '9' are no valid tokens in octal notation.
>>> 010
8
>>> 10
10
http://docs.python.org/2.7/reference/lexical_analysis.html#numeric-literals
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nosy
New submission from VeloxAmbitum:
Using input(string) to read a number crashes whenever the number is "0*8*" or
"0*9*" where * can be any number (i.e., "09", "08", and "0102393" all cause the
code to crash).
Crash occurs on Windows 7 x64 running 32 bit Python version 2.7.6 as a Syntax
Error:
