[Python-3000] Octal

[Giovanni Bajo]

On 14/03/2007 6.38, Greg Ewing wrote:

>> Do we deprecate it followed by a later removal (so as to "resist the
>> temptation to guess")?  If so, sounds good to me (I've never had a use
>> for octal literals). 
> 
> I think that *some* syntax should be provided for octal
> literals. 

If we get to the point that builtin calls are compile-time optimized (and we 
really really should), int("1234", 8) could even be folded at byte-code level.
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Giovanni Bajo