Numeric literals in other than base 10 - was Annoying octal notation

[Ben Finney]

garabik-news-2005-05 at kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk writes:

> Why not just use the space? 123 000 looks better than 123_000, and is
> not syntactically ambiguous (at least in python). And as it already
> works for string literals, it could be applied to numbers, too…

+1 to all this. I think this discussion was had many months ago, but
can't recall how it ended back then.

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