Bug?

[Artie Gold]

peter at clgus wrote:
> Hello
> 
> Ive recently found that you cannot type anything over 7 into a number that is preceded with a 0.
> ex:
>      >>> 01
>     1
>     >>> 07
>     7
>     >>> 08
>     SyntaxError: invalid token
>     >>> 011
>     9
>     >>> 017
>     15
>     >>> 077
>     63
>     >>> 078
>     SyntaxError: invalid token
> 
> I know this isnt that big of a problem,
> but i cannot think of one reason why they would not allow numbers preceded with a 0 to have a number
> higher then a 7 in them...
> And it seems very inconsistant to me...
> 
> Is there a reason for this?
> 

Yup. ;-)

Numbers beginning with a `0' are in octal (base 8), so only the digits 
`0' through `7' are valid.

HTH,
--ag

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