On Sat, Mar 05, 2016 at 05:20:21PM -0600, boB Stepp wrote: > Why do zeros not give a syntax error, but other numbers with a leading > zero do give a syntax error? An online search reveals that in Python > 2 a leading 0 starts an octal number, but this was changed in Python > 3. But then why is 00...0 valid, that is, does not give a syntax > error?
No reason. It's just a historical accident, and with no real harm done, people decided it's not worth fixing: http://bugs.python.org/issue24668 -- Steve _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
