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

Raymond Hettinger python at rcn.com
Wed Mar 14 07:22:30 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?

[Josiah]

Do we deprecate it followed by a later removal

Nope. Just drop them from Python 3000. No one (except Greg) will miss them. The 2-to-3 tool can convert 0123 constants to decimal or hex. Any need to process external octal value can already be done explicitly through: int(octstring, 8).

Raymond

P.S. My note was occasioned by a colleague encountering errors with integer data that had leading zeroes. He was surprised to find-out that the lead zero notation for octal literals had been around for a long time.

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