[Python-3000] Fwd: Re: Octal

[Greg Ewing]

Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> The use cases for
> zfill() correspond to the cases where leading zeros are meaningfully 
> interpreted as decimals (this includes phone and social security numbers, 
> account numbers, and whatnot).

They're NOT numbers! They're STRINGS!

Leading zeroes would only be disallowed in *python
source code*. Things like int("00123") would still
work and be decimal.

--
Greg