Annoying octal notation

[Carl Banks]

On Aug 21, 12:48 pm, Derek Martin <c... at pizzashack.org> wrote:
> John Nagle wrote:
> > Yes, and making lead zeros an error as suggested in PEP 3127 is a
> > good idea.  It will be interesting to see what bugs that flushes
> > out.
> James Harris wrote:
> > It maybe made sense once but this relic of the past should have been
> > consigned to the waste bin of history long ago.
>
> Sigh.  Nonsense.  I use octal notation *every day*, for two extremely
> prevalent purposes: file creation umask, and Unix file permissions
> (i.e. the chmod() function/command).

Unix file permissions maybe made sense once but this relic of the past
should have been consigned to the waste bin of history long ago.  :)


Carl Banks