Ben Finney added the comment: > rationale unknown
That's quite a pity. The inconsistency catches people out, and the docs do not make clear why an exception is made. > but any number of zeroes is still unambiguously zero. Of course. But the same is true for “0003 is unambiguously three”, yet that's invalid syntax. I won't contest closing this report. But the above is not an explanation for the inconsistency. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue26490> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
