Python Gotcha with Octal Numbers

[Simon Brunning]

> From:	Christopher.Saunter at durham.ac.uk
> [SMTP:Christopher.Saunter at durham.ac.uk]
> It all stems to this, I was assigning to numbers to variables:
> 
> var1 = 1000
> var2 = 0100
> etc.
 
See <http://mindprod.com/unmain.html> - Coding Obfuscation, point 11. (About
halfway down.)

Nice to know that you can write unmaintainable code in Python, too.

Probably to late to do anything about it now - think of all the code which
would break!

Cheers,
Simon Brunning.
sbrunning at fuckmicrosoft.com




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