[New-bugs-announce] [issue12127] Inconsistent leading zero treatment

[Peter Wentworth]

New submission from Peter Wentworth <p.wentworth at ict.ru.ac.za>:

In Python 3 we no longer have octal literals. The assignment
x = 0050  
gives an invalid token error.

But the assignment
y = int("0050") assigns the value 50 to y.

I would advocate consistency in the two situations, and prefer that leading zeros should be permitted on numbers.

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components: Interpreter Core
messages: 136352
nosy: Peter.Wentworth
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Inconsistent leading zero treatment
type: compile error
versions: Python 3.1

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