[Python-3000] Octal

[Josiah Carlson]

Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com> wrote:
> Now that the 20th century is safely behind us, do we still want
> literals with leading zeroes to be interpreted as octal?

Do we deprecate it followed by a later removal (so as to "resist the
temptation to guess")?  If so, sounds good to me (I've never had a use
for octal literals).  Making them decimal instead, I think, would be a
mistake.

 - Josiah