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

[Ian Kelly]

On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 12:19 AM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Thu, 10 May 2018 23:23:33 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> You should have said. Since you quoted the PEP, I inferred you were
> agreeing with the PEP's suggestion:
>
>     even to use a "t" for "ocTal" and an "n" for "biNary" to
>     go along with the "x" for "heXadecimal".
>
> Note the "go along with". The X of hexadecimal, and the N of binary, are
> the *last* letter of a syllable, not the first, so I didn't think that
> "first letter of a syllable" was the rule you were applying. If it were,
> you would have picked "C" for oc-tal, not t.

The X of hexadecimal is pronounced as the consonant cluster /ks/. The
k sound ends the first syllable, and the s sound begins the second
syllable. So the X is both, really.

The N of binary is the first letter of the second syllable, unless the
Australian pronunciation is radically different from the American.