\ OctalDigit etc.

[bearophile]

Sean Kelly:
> The format of octal literals is one of the more harebrained ideas we've inherited from C.  I'd love to require
> an "0o" prefix or something of the sort, but it would cause unnecessary trouble for ported C code.  Ah well.

Just fixed in Python 3.0 ;-) Among many other things. But I too can see the situation is different: you usually don't port much code from C to Python.

Bye,
bearophile