Numeric literal syntax

[Fredrik Lundh]

Ben Finney wrote:

> I would argue that the precedent, already within Python, for using a
> space to separate pieces of a string literal, is more important than
> precedents from other programming languages.

that precedent also tells us that the whitespace approach is a common 
source of errors.  taking an approach that's known to be error-prone and 
applying it to more cases isn't necessarily a great way to build a 
better language.

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