Mark Dickinson <[email protected]> added the comment:
Well, I'd personally like to see those leading zeros accepted at some point in
Python's future, for the sake of cleanliness and consistency. Not just
consistency with int(), but also e.g. with float literals:
>>> 0050.
50.0
>>> 0050
File "<stdin>", line 1
0050
^
SyntaxError: invalid token
I'm just not sure whether we're at that point yet.
I don't find the PEP 3127 argument that we should protect people from
subsequent confusion in other languages with 'leading zero implies octal'
semantics at all convincing.
On the other hand, I do see the case for not having Python 3 silently behave
differently from Python 2.
It seems worth a discussion, at least.
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