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Python-list Digest, Vol 18, Issue 208

Reinhold Birkenfeld reinhold-birkenfeld-nospam at wolke7.net
Tue Mar 15 13:42:05 EST 2005 
Jeff Shannon wrote:
> 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.

So what's the current state of the "universal-base-prefix" syntax?

Something like 10x10, 16xA and 8x12?

Or just use a different octal syntax like 0o10 (and introduce a similar
one for binary literals, 0b1101000111)?

Reinhold
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