[issue24668] Deprecate 00000 as a synonym for 0

Georg Brandl added the comment: Closing now. -- status: pending -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Uns

[issue24668] Deprecate 00000 as a synonym for 0

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[issue24668] Deprecate 00000 as a synonym for 0

Mark Dickinson added the comment: [Raymond] > I propose leaving this alone unless some actual harm can be shown. +1. -- nosy: +mark.dickinson status: pending -> open ___ Python tracker ___

[issue24668] Deprecate 00000 as a synonym for 0

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 mi

[issue24668] Deprecate 00000 as a synonym for 0

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: Since is unambiguous, I propose leaving this alone unless some actual harm can be shown. The leading zeros for floats have proven to be harmless, 00.0 is valid. I see no reason to churn the code, go through deprecation effort, burden the docs with a

[issue24668] Deprecate 00000 as a synonym for 0

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[issue24668] Deprecate 00000 as a synonym for 0

New submission from Steven D'Aprano: As discussed on the python-ideas list here: Subject: Disallow "0" as a synonym for "0" https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2015-July/034631.html and on Stackoverflow, leading zeroes are forbidden for ints, due to the possible confusion with C