[Python-3000] Fwd: Re: Fwd: Re: Fwd: Re: Octal

[Daniel Stutzbach]

On 3/15/07, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
> My concern is that I don't want to have to write something like
>
> x = 0t755  # octal literal
>
> because then I can also write
>
> x = 493  # 0755 in octal
>
> and don't need octal literals at all.

The later is error-prone and might be hard to debug if you put too
much faith in comments.
However, I'd be happy with leaving out octal literals in favor of:

x = int('755', 8)

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Daniel Stutzbach, Ph.D.             President, Stutzbach Enterprises LLC