[Python-3000] Octal (original) (raw)

Josiah Carlson jcarlson at uci.edu
Wed Mar 14 05:59:39 CET 2007

Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com> wrote:

Now that the 20th century is safely behind us, do we still want literals with leading zeroes to be interpreted as octal?

Do we deprecate it followed by a later removal (so as to "resist the temptation to guess")? If so, sounds good to me (I've never had a use for octal literals). Making them decimal instead, I think, would be a mistake.

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