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[Ben Finney]

"mensanator at aol.com" <mensanator at aol.com> writes:

> > The str.split method has no bearing on this discussion,
> 
> It most certainly does. To make '123 456' into an integer,
> you split it and then join it.

Indeed. Which has nothing to do with the Python syntax for creating a
numeric literal in code.

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