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

[Grant Edwards]

On 2018-05-10, Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet at unequivocal.eu> wrote:

> This whole thread is reminding me PHP 2, which would magically treat
> the second parameter of ChMod() as octal, because clearly if weak
> typing is good then *no* typing must be best of all!
>
>   ChMod($filename, 644); // second parameter is actually 420 base 10

Aaargh.  That's awful.

I didn't think it was possible for my opinion of PHP to get any lower.

I was wrong.

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