I'm holding off installing Python 2.6, waiting for some packages to become available for it. I wonder if someone could tell me the best way to avoid future problems parsing decimal integers with leading zeros.
>>> int('09') 9 That works in 2.5 but will break in 2.6 AFAIK as int() is being changed to use Numeric Literal syntax. It will give a syntax error as the leading 0 will force an octal radix and the 9 will be out of range. Will this avoid the breakage? >>> int('09', 10) 9 Or should I use this uglier variation that needs 2.2.2 or later? >>> int('09'.lstrip('0')) 9 Is the documentation for int([x[, radix]]) correct? I'd say that the default for radix has become 0. http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#int -- Pete Forman -./\.- Disclaimer: This post is originated WesternGeco -./\.- by myself and does not represent [EMAIL PROTECTED] -./\.- the opinion of Schlumberger or http://petef.22web.net -./\.- WesternGeco. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list