Leading 0's syntax error in datetime.date module (Python 3.6)

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Thu May 10 20:55:58 EDT 2018

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On 11/05/2018 01:25, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com>:
>>> Octal makes a lot of sense in the right contexts.
>> I think octal is a historical relic from a time when people weren't yet
> comfortable with hexadecimal.

It's a relic from when machines had word sizes that were multiples of 
three bits, or were divided up on 3-bit boundaries.
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