On Feb 20, 7:37 pm, "John Machin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Feb 21, 3:09 pm, Astan Chee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I just tried to do
> > eval('00052') and it returned 42.
> > Is this a known bug in the eval function? Or have I missed the way eval
> > function works?
> > Thanks
>
> Eight fives are forty. Forty plus two is forty two. I see no bug here,
> only a language design strangeness which can be blamed on the then-
> pervasive influence of all things from Bell Labs :-)So is this anachronism slated for removal in Python 3? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
