Bug in eval function?

[Graham Breed]

Pascal wrote:
>>>>eval('88200')
> 
> 88200
> 
>>>>eval('00088200')
> 
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<pyshell#11>", line 1, in -toplevel-
>     eval('00088200')
>   File "<string>", line 1
>     00088200
>            ^
> SyntaxError: invalid token

Yep!

 >>> eval('010')
8

A leading zero means an octal number.  You can't have digits larger than 
7 in octal.  The token it says is invalid is invalid.  It isn't invalid, 
unless you've spotted something more subtle being wrong.


                       Graham