PEP 305 - CSV File API

Carlos Ribeiro cribeiro at mail.inet.com.br
Tue Feb 4 09:38:49 EST 2003


On Tuesday 04 February 2003 04:56 am, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> Carlos Ribeiro fed this fish to the penguins on Monday 03 February 2003
>
> 06:18 pm:
> > 00012345,00098765
> >
> > ... should be read as two ints - there are no quotes, so the CSV
> > reader *should* assume that these are two numbers, not strings.
>
>         Yes, but is the first an octal representation of an int, and is the
> second thereby an error?

:-P   blargh! Didn't think about it first. But octals are bad, you know. I've 
always hated them... Now hex, I just love them. :-)


Carlos Ribeiro





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