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

[Gregory Ewing]

Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> I'm
> guessing using letters as digits felt awkward among computer people for
> a long time.

I think you may be underestimating how much weirdness
early computer programmers were willing to accept.
If you think using letters as hex digits is awkward,
you should check out what EDSAC programmers had to
put up with.

-- 
Greg