[Python-3000] Fwd: Re: Octal (original) (raw)

Steven Bethard steven.bethard at gmail.com
Wed Mar 14 21:56:32 CET 2007

On 3/14/07, Thomas Wouters <thomas at python.org> wrote:

On 3/14/07, Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com> wrote: > - In 3.0, we don't want an exception. Eh, no, you might not want one, but I most assuredly do want an exception. Having formerly-octal literals suddenly give wrong results would be much more of a stumbling block than having them in the first place, especially considering we forgot to change all the other languages out there. An exception can make the difference between '0t60' and '60' clear in a single message, not to mention refuse the temptation to guess.

Sorry, but could you explain why having the -py3k flag raise the exception for your 2.X code wouldn't be sufficient? Is it because you expect your fingers will continue to type 0660 instead of 0t660 when you're writing Python 3000 code?

STeVe

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