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

Patrick Maupin pmaupin at gmail.com
Sat Mar 17 01:13:42 CET 2007

On 3/16/07, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

Paul Moore wrote:

> Rather than agonise about uppercase, which is very infrequently used, > why not just remove the option and only allow lowercase? That's actually a pretty good idea. Identifiers and keywords are already case-sensitive, so it's hard to see why these shouldn't be. For consistency, do we apply this to string prefixes too?

Actually, sometimes people use upper-case hexadecimal; sometimes lower, so for output formatting, we need 'x' and 'X'. Obviously, that isn't an issue with octal :)

Regards, Pat

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