sorting a list numbers stored as strings

Tue Sep 25 08:45:30 EDT 2007

On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:46:54 +0800, Delaney, Timothy (Tim) wrote:

> Carsten Haese wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 19:58 +0800, Delaney, Timothy (Tim) wrote:
>>> I'm sure that in some version of Python it would have given a
>>> ValueError (due to the default radix being 0) but it appears to have
>>> changed to a default radix of 10 somewhere along the way.
>> 
>> Not even Python 1.5.2 seems to have a problem with leading zeroes:
>> 
>> Python 1.5.2 (#1, Nov  6 1999, 14:53:40) [C] on sco_sv3 Copyright
>> 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
>>>>> int("08")
>> 8
> 
> Yep - appears I must have been misremembering from another language
> (dunno which) or I misinterpreted the docs.

I also remember something in Python about leading zeroes leading to 
"surprising" effects... ah, I got it!

>>> int("020")
20
>>> 020
16

-- 
Steven.