On 2016-08-28 20:29, Ken Kundert wrote:
What is wrong with have two ways of doing things? We have many ways of
specifying the value of the integer 16: 0b10000, 0o20, 16, 0x10, 16L, ....
Zen of Python: "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious
way to do it."
If Python didn't have binary or octal notation and someone came here
proposing it, I would not support it, for the same reasons I don't
support your proposal. If someone proposed eliminating binary or octal
notation for Python 4 (or even maybe Python 3.8), I would probably
support it for the same reason. Those notations are not useful enough
to justify their existence. Hexadecimal is more justifiable as it is
far more widely used, but I would be more open to removing hexadecimal
than I would be to adding octal.
Also, "L" as a long-integer suffix is already gone in Python 3.
--
Brendan Barnwell
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no
path, and leave a trail."
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