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I’ve just noticed 0-padding is not allowed in Python and I was wondering why this choice was made?
For example:
a = 09
doesn’t work while
a = 9
does
How’s that?!
Thank you very much for your answers!
Python, as many other languages, treat numbers starting with 0 as being in octal notation. 09 is not valid as octal
See chapter 2.4.4 in the python language reference.