CPython has this "feature", or rather a quirk:
Python 2.4.4c0 (#2, Jul 30 2006, 15:43:58)
[GCC 4.1.2 20060715 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-9)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> int('0777\0xyz', 8)
511
Of course, anyone depending on this should suffer appropriate
punishment after their death, but this *is* an incompatibility.
Annoyingly, CPython's tarfile module depends on this.
--
Seo Sanghyeon
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