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

[Ian Kelly]

On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 9:21 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Thu, 10 May 2018 11:03:54 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote about proposed
> prefixes for octal:
>
>> Personally I would have preferred the "t".
>
> "t" for octal, hey?
>
> That would be annoying if we ever get trinary literals.
>
> n for binary
> t for octal
> i for trinary
> or should that be r for ternary?
> o for duodecimal

I prefer it because it's the first letter of a syllable and it's not
"o", not because it's the third letter of the word. Most of those
suggestions make no sense. Why would we ever want ternary literals
anyway?