[Python-3000] Octal

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 06:59:03AM -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>  I really don't like to have to write int('660', 8). How about 0t660?
> This is most symmetric with 0xffe for hex, as it is the 3rd letter of
> the word in both cases.
> 
> I think we also approved 0b101010 for binary numbers, didn't we? Other
> bases don't have enough of a following to bother.

      0b101010
      0c660
      0xffe

   I.e. the first letter from "bin", the second from "oct", the third from
"hex". Also "0c" resembles "oc" from "oct".

Oleg.
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