Python Gotcha with Octal Numbers

[Grant Edwards]

In article <3C768454.A5F778D2 at ccvcorp.com>, Jeff Shannon wrote:

>> I just got bit by the leading-zero thing again about 10 minutes
>> ago when I changed the minor version number of something from 07
>> to 08.  Had to skip from 1.07 to 1.10...
> 
> So try using 010, which should then be converted back to 8 ... (or else keep your
> versioning info as strings.)

[The recent issue was in a C program.]

The major and minor version info is defined in a header file:

#define MAJOR_VERSION 1
#define MINOR_VERSION 08

In some places it's "stringified" and concatenated using
preprocessor tricks, and other places it's used as an integer
literal constant.  Perhaps the design is a bit baroque, but
it's easier to skip from 07 to 10 than it is to change the
usage in multiple places.

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