eval('000052') = 42?

[Roger Miller]

On Feb 20, 7:37 pm, "John Machin" <sjmac... at lexicon.net> wrote:
> On Feb 21, 3:09 pm, Astan Chee <s... at al.com.au> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I just tried to do
> > eval('00052') and it returned 42.
> > Is this a known bug in the eval function? Or have I missed the way eval
> > function works?
> > Thanks
>
> Eight fives are forty. Forty plus two is forty two. I see no bug here,
> only a language design strangeness which can be blamed on the then-
> pervasive influence of all things from Bell Labs :-)

So is this anachronism slated for removal in Python 3?