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

[Grant Edwards]

On 2018-05-11, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Fri, 11 May 2018 21:55:17 +1200, Gregory Ewing wrote:
>
>> Hex came into vogue in the DEC world with the VAX, which was both
>> byte-addressed and had a hex-oriented instruction encoding.
>
>
> [...] You had computers with 6, 9, or even 60 bits per byte

Ah, the old CDC-6600 had 60-bit words.

IIRC, the Pascal compiler used a 6-bit wide character set, which meant
that you could fit 10 characters in a word, and Pascal identifiers
were limited to 10 characters.

> I'm also told that some of those computers didn't run Windows.

Of course not, everything ran Linux back in the good old days.

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