Steven Bethard wrote:
Jeff Shannon wrote:
now that almost the entire industry has standardized on power-of-2 word sizes, octal is nearly useless but is still carried about for backwards compatibility.
So do you think it's worth lobbying for its removal in Python 3.0 when we can break some backwards compatibility?
I'd be in favor of that, unless someone can come up with a compelling current use-case for octal literals.
Jeff Shannon
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