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

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Fri Mar 16 09:32:22 CET 2007

Georg Brandl wrote:

Greg Ewing schrieb:

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.

There aren't many people that write UR"WTF?" either, but odd capitalisation is still legal syntax that can't be ignored completely when making changes.

Compare:

0t755 0T755 0o755 0O755 0c755 0C755

0c755 is looking like the best candidate IMO (best looking lowercase, least bad looking uppercase)

There's also a nice coincidental pattern that emerges from that option: 0b for Binary 0c for oCtal 0x for heXadecimal

Cheers, Nick.

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