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

Giovanni Bajo rasky at develer.com
Wed Mar 14 08:04:32 CET 2007

On 14/03/2007 7.22, Raymond Hettinger wrote:

[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.

I don't think anyone use octal unless there is a very compelling reason. Thus, I'd make it convert the octal literal to int("...", 8). If the programmer used octal, it probably means something in his mind (eg: UNIX attributes) so I'd leave it that way in the source code. The corresponding decimal/hex could be totally meaningless in that context (or he would have not used octal in the first place...).

Giovanni Bajo

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