Python-list Digest, Vol 18, Issue 208

[Jeff Shannon]

Steven Bethard wrote:

> Jeff Shannon wrote:
> 
>> now that almost the entire industry has standardized on power-of-2 
>> word sizes, octal is nearly useless but is still carried about for 
>> backwards compatibility.
> 
> So do you think it's worth lobbying for its removal in Python 3.0 when 
> we can break some backwards compatibility?

I'd be in favor of that, unless someone can come up with a compelling 
current use-case for octal literals.

Jeff Shannon