Python Gotcha with Octal Numbers

[Jason Orendorff]

Grant Edwards wrote:
> I just got bit by the leading-zero thing again about 10 minutes
> ago when I changed the minor version number of something from 07
> to 08.  Had to skip from 1.07 to 1.10...

Serves you right.  Version numbers like 1.07 are silly.
1.0.7 or 1.7 would be more sensible.

A tuple is particularly swell for version numbers.
See sys.version_info.

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