[New-bugs-announce] [issue33305] Improve syntax error for numbers with leading zero

[Steven D'Aprano]

New submission from Steven D'Aprano <steve+python at pearwood.info>:

The Python 2.x syntax for octal integers is a syntax error in 3.x, but the error message is very uninformative:

SyntaxError: invalid token


Can this be improved? Perhaps to something like:

invalid token, use 0o prefix for octal integers


(see also #33304)

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messages: 315431
nosy: steven.daprano
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Improve syntax error for numbers with leading zero
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.8

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