On 8/12/18 09:35, Ian Kelly wrote: > On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 11:56 PM Henrik Bengtsson > <henrik.bengts...@gmail.com> wrote: >> A comment from the sideline: one could imagine extending the Python syntax >> with a (optional) 0d prefix that allows for explicit specification of >> decimal values. They would "complete" the family: >> >> * 0b: binary number >> * 0o: octal number >> * 0d: decimal number >> * 0x: hexadecimal number > That's nice and elegant, but what would be the use case?
A use case is that sometimes numbers are a code for something else and this something else is more recognizable if all such coded numbers are written in a common length. The normal way to write such numbers in a common length is to start the number with sufficient zeroes. But that can now only be done in binary, octal and hexadecimal notation. Antoon. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list