Error evaluating numbers starting in zero

[Janko Hauser]

"Richard P. Muller" <rpm at wag.caltech.edu> writes:

> "01/08/99", python runs into an error when it tries to eval("08").
> 
The use of int("08") may help

HTH,
__Janko

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