[Python-Dev] Octal literals

[Barry Warsaw]

On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 11:07 -0800, Josiah Carlson wrote:

> In my experience, I've rarely had the opportunity (or misfortune?) to
> deal with negative constants, whose exact bit representation I needed to
> get "just right".  For my uses, I find that specifying "-0x..." or "-..."
> to be sufficient.

I can't remember a time when signed hex, oct, or binary representation
wasn't a major inconvenience, let alone something desirable.  Don't get
me started about hex(id(object()))!  I typically use hex for addresses
and bit fields, binary for bit flags and other bit twiddling, and oct
for OS/file system interfaces.  In none of those cases do you actually
need or want signed values.  IME.

-Barry

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