[New-bugs-announce] [issue2681] octal literals beginning with 8 don't raise a SyntaxError

[Lukas Meuser]

New submission from Lukas Meuser <lukas-pydev at quittenbrod.de>:

Octal literals containing an 8 or a 9 should raise a SyntaxError, but 8 ist 
accepted as the first character of such a literal (e.g., 0o8 or 0o876, but 
not 0o678). Those literals evaluate to 0.0.
The fix for this is trivial, a patch against current SVN (r62479) is 
attached.

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components: Interpreter Core
files: octal_literals.diff
keywords: patch
messages: 65729
nosy: lukas.meuser
severity: normal
status: open
title: octal literals beginning with 8 don't raise a SyntaxError
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.0
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file10085/octal_literals.diff

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