"Nicko van Someren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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| On 14 Mar 2007, at 23:08, Guido van Rossum wrote:
| > IOW, the only thing I'm unsure about is whether int('0012', 0) should
| > return 10 or complain like eval('0012') would. Perhaps it's best to
| > say that int('0012', 0) is a safer way to parse Python int literals,
| > and that would make it an error.
|
| The current documentation for the int() says "If radix is zero ...
| the interpretation is the same as for integer literals." I very much
| think that this should remain true.
I agree. Adding an exception just slightly clouds the language. Anyway,
int('12',8) in one *less* character to type!
Terry Jan Reedy
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