[Python-3000] String literal representation of integers (octal/binary discussion) (original) (raw)

Thomas Wouters thomas at python.org
Mon Mar 19 01:50:00 CET 2007

On 3/19/07, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:

Patrick Maupin schrieb: > On 3/18/07, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote: >> I just want to add that I've adapted and extended Thomas' original patch >> for the 0o123 syntax. It should be pretty complete. >> >> Open issues would probably be: >> - should int("0755", 0) give 0o755? (IMO yes) > > The PEP covers this, with the answer current of "yes" for 2.6 and > "exception" for 3.0. (It presumes int(x, 0) should be the same as the > compiler tokenizer result.) It isn't. We already said that int() should continue to accept "0x" and "0X" prefixes for hexadecimal, for instance.

As far as I understood Guido, int(s, 16) should. int(s, 0) should not.

-- Thomas Wouters <thomas at python.org>

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