Is this a bug in int()?

[Fredrik Lundh]

MartinRinehart at gmail.com wrote:

>>>> int('0x', 16)
> 0
> 
> I'm working on a tokenizer and I'm thinking about returning a
> MALFORMED_NUMBER token (1.2E, .5E+)

Somewhat surprisingly, "0x" is a valid integer literal in Python:

 >>> 0x
0

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