Why Python don't accept 03 as a number?

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On 2018-12-08 01:17, jfong at ms4.hinet.net wrote:
>>>> 00
> 0
>>>> 03
>    File "<stdin>", line 1
>      03
>       ^
> SyntaxError: invalid token
>>>>
> 
> Any particular reason?
> 
Before Python 3, a leading 0 in an integer literal would indicate an 
octal (base 8) number.

In Python 2.7:
 >>> 010
8

That notation was borrowed from C.

The hexadecimal (base 16) notation of a leading 0x was also borrowed 
from C (it was a later introduction to the language).

Python also has the binary (base 2) notation of a leading 0b.

For Python 3, it was felt that it would be clearer to have an octal 
notation that didn't use just a leading 0, so it was changed to a 
leading 0o.

The old form is now invalid in order to reduce the chance of bugs.

If you're coming from Python 2, you might expect that 010 is still 
octal, and if you're not familiar with that notation, you might expect 
that it's decimal.