Python Gotcha with Octal Numbers

[Cameron Laird]

In article <3C6DA497.9AB8D624 at ev1.net>,
Charles Richmond  <richmond at ev1.net> wrote:
>jmfbahciv at aol.com wrote:
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>> I do have two memoes that I found in my office boxes that were
>> addressed to PDP-1 users.  I don't know the people who wrote
>> them (Roland Silver, Edward Fredkin) nor where they were.
>> 
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>> Well, if you can give me a clue about these memoes that I have, I'd
>> appreciate it.
>> 
>Ed Fredkin is semi-famous. He was mentioned prominantly in David
>Levy's book _Hackers_. He also invented some data structures that
>are used today, notably the "trie". 
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Oh, yes.  There's a whole cult around Fredkin
<URL: http://www.digitalphilosophy.org/ >.

It's one to which I'm sympathetic, as it happens.
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