Bug?

[peter@clgus]

Hello

Ive recently found that you cannot type anything over 7 into a number that is preceded with a 0.
ex: SyntaxError: invalid token

I know this isnt that big of a problem,
but i cannot think of one reason why they would not allow numbers preceded with a 0 to have a number
higher then a 7 in them...
And it seems very inconsistant to me...

Is there a reason for this?

Thanks
Peter

 

[Artie Gold]

Hello

Ive recently found that you cannot type anything over 7 into a number that is preceded with a 0.
ex:
SyntaxError: invalid token

I know this isnt that big of a problem,
but i cannot think of one reason why they would not allow numbers preceded with a 0 to have a number
higher then a 7 in them...
And it seems very inconsistant to me...

Is there a reason for this?

Yup. ;-)

Numbers beginning with a `0' are in octal (base 8), so only the digits
`0' through `7' are valid.

HTH,
--ag