[Python-ideas] Input characters in strings by decimals (Was: Proposal for default character representation)

[Random832]

On Wed, Dec 7, 2016, at 22:06, Mikhail V wrote:
> So you were catched up from the beginning with hex, as I see ;)
> I on the contrary in dark times of learning programming
> (that was C) always oriented myself on decimal codes
> and don't regret it now.

C doesn't support decimal in string literals either, only octal and hex
(incidentally octal seems to have been much more common in the
environments where C was first invented). I can think of one context
where decimal is used for characters, actually, now that I think about
it. ANSI/ISO standards for 8-bit character sets often use a 'split'
decimal format (i.e. DEL = 7/15 rather than 0x7F or 127.)