[Python-3000] Octal

[Guido van Rossum]

Please. No discussion of generalized radixes.

Also, IMO Tim's proposal changes too much; there's nothing wrong with 0b and 0x.

On 3/15/07, Patrick Maupin <pmaupin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/15/07, Tim Peters <tim.peters at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >     2r1010
> >     4r22
> >     8r12
> >     16ra (or) 16rA
> >
>
> Part of me would miss 0xABCD terrbly, but I like the concept.  The
> only real rub is the impending huge discussion about the number of
> allowed radices.  The max 36 radix currently supported by int() is
> numerically suspiciously similar to the sum of the number of ASCII
> digit characters and the number of same-case ASCII letters, so
> obviously, a tempting answer to the question "How many radices should
> we support?" is "All of them."
>
> Regards,
> Pat
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