bpo-37367: octal escapes applied inconsistently throughout the interpreter and lib by websurfer5 · Pull Request #14654

bpo-37367: octal escapes applied inconsistently throughout the interpreter and lib by websurfer5 · Pull Request #14654 · python/cpython

values greater than 255 (0o377)

1. use "octal escape sequences" instead of "octal values" in comments
2. remove underscore from _literal_eval

Also, use "0o1000-0o400" instead of "256" to make it clear to the reader
where the value came from.