Georg Brandl added the comment: I don't recall the reason for this deliberate change (as seen from the docs change).
I'm unable to come up with a good reason for this change now, but on the other hand I can't come up with a good reason for code churn and adding deprecationg warnings for a minor detail just as Raymond says. Since the direction we're going is to allow leading zeros for all decimal literals in Python 4 (if it ever comes around), that's another reason for the status quo to win. ---------- resolution: -> rejected status: open -> pending _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue24668> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
