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

Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Fri Mar 16 08:26:20 CET 2007

Greg Ewing schrieb:

Guido van Rossum wrote:

I'm somewhat uncomfortable with 0o because the zero in some fonts is about the same size as a lowercase oh; You already have to be careful what font you use for programming with, so I don't think that's a serious problem.

I agree.

More serious is that if we want to be consistent with 0x and allow upper case, we get 0O, which looks quite confusing in just about any font.

Hm, I don't think there are too many people who write 0XABC today. As discussed earlier, you lose the "short" x.

Georg

More information about the Python-3000 mailing list