Leading 0's syntax error in datetime.date module (Python 3.6)

[Skip Montanaro]

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> This gave the following error:
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> Syntax Error: invalid token: C:\Users\Virgil Stokes\Desktop\Important
> Notes_Files\CheckProcessingDate_02.py, line 7, pos 17
> d0 = date(2018,02,01)
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Note that this is a Python syntax error. It actually has nothing to do with
the datetime module. In Python before version 3, leading zeroes were how
you specified octal (base 8) numbers. That changed in Python 3. If you slim
the start of PEP 3127, you'll learn the new notation.

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3127/

There is a section in that document about removal of the old syntax:

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3127/#removal-of-old-octal-syntax

Which is what bit you.

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