string repr in 2.1

[Robin Becker]

In article <mailman.991126994.10524.python-list at python.org>, Robin
Becker <robin at jessikat.fsnet.co.uk> writes
>
>How I long for my 18-bit PDP-15 :) what happened to my 15 octal digit
>cdc! Oh woe is me! Where are the duo-decimal calculators of yore? 
the 15 octal digits were a mis-remembered 16 as my former colleague
informs me that 1604's were 48 bit.
-- 
Robin Becker