Why gives "k = 09" a syntax error ?
Robert Kern
robert.kern at gmail.com
Wed Oct 29 17:57:53 EDT 2008
Mensanator wrote:
> On Oct 29, 4:25 pm, Terry Reedy <tjre... at udel.edu> wrote:
>> Stef Mientki wrote:
>>> hello,
>>> Why gives "k = 09" a syntax error ?
>> You have gotten the 2.x answer. In 3.0, 0b,0o,0x prefixes are valid and
>> required for binary, octal, and hexadecimal literals. 0digits is invalid.
>>
>> tjr
>
> Is it documented? :-)
Yes.
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3127/
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Robert Kern
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth."
-- Umberto Eco
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