Roger Miller roger.miller at nova-sol.com
Wed Feb 21 15:21:56 EST 2007

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On Feb 20, 7:37 pm, "John Machin" <sjmac... at lexicon.net> wrote:
> On Feb 21, 3:09 pm, Astan Chee <s... at al.com.au> wrote:
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> > Hi,
> > I just tried to do
> > eval('00052') and it returned 42.
> > Is this a known bug in the eval function? Or have I missed the way eval
> > function works?
> > Thanks
>
> Eight fives are forty. Forty plus two is forty two. I see no bug here,
> only a language design strangeness which can be blamed on the then-
> pervasive influence of all things from Bell Labs :-)

So is this anachronism slated for removal in Python 3?

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