PEP 313 - Roman numeral literals

[Jacek Generowicz]

Ben Hutchings <do-not-spam-ben.hutchings at businesswebsoftware.com> writes:

> In article <x7y92uhzpw.fsf at guru.mired.org>, Mike Meyer wrote:
> <snip>
> >     3.  At most three Is, Xs and Cs may appear in any given literal.
> <snip>
> 
> OK cleverclogs, how do we write 39?

IXL. 

(That ignores some of his other restrictions, but as you omitted them ...)