[Python-Dev] %b format?

Tim Peters tim.one@home.com
Wed, 30 May 2001 18:17:42 -0400


Note that in Vyper (John Skaller's Python variant) these are legit integer
literals:

0b11111111 0B11111111
0o777      0O777
0d999      0D999
0xfFf      0XFFf

Vyper's octal notation is still ugly, but whoever first thought

    0777 != 777

was a "good idea" was certifiably insane <0.25 wink>.