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

[Patrick Maupin]

On 3/16/07, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Paul Moore wrote:
>
> > Rather than agonise about uppercase, which is very infrequently used,
> > why not just remove the option and only allow lowercase?
>
> That's actually a pretty good idea. Identifiers and keywords
> are already case-sensitive, so it's hard to see why these
> shouldn't be.
>
> For consistency, do we apply this to string prefixes too?

Actually, sometimes people use upper-case hexadecimal; sometimes
lower, so for output formatting, we need 'x' and 'X'.  Obviously, that
isn't an issue with octal :)

Regards,
Pat