int() shortcoming?

Greg Ewing see_reply_address at something.invalid
Tue Nov 26 22:00:23 EST 2002


Padraig Brady wrote:

> However this is not backwards compatible.
> I.E. int('017') would give a different answer.


Which is an excellent reason for *not* doing this!

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