Octal number problem

[Carlos Ribeiro]

On Wednesday 19 February 2003 23:34, Chad Netzer wrote:
> yes; eval("010") == 8
>
> however,
>
> int("010") = 10

I may be mistaken (and someone probably will be more than happy to tell me 
why), but this inconsistence alone seems like a good reason to deprecate 
octals (if only in Python 3000!). It really makes no sense to have 
eval("010") != int("010").


Carlos Ribeiro
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