Octal number problem

[Chad Netzer]

On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 18:19, Gary Duncan wrote:
> Python has the quaint behaviour of interpreting
> a numeric string with a leading zero as octal, a bit like C.

yes; eval("010") == 8

however,

int("010") = 10

So you can use int() to get the desired behavior.  Depending on your
application, this may or may not be convenient.

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Chad Netzer
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