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authorEric V. Smith <eric@trueblade.com>2014-04-14 11:41:52 (GMT)
committerEric V. Smith <eric@trueblade.com>2014-04-14 11:41:52 (GMT)
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Fix text about int() with octal numbers. Closes #21212.
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@@ -711,7 +711,7 @@ By default, these interpret the number as decimal, so that ``int('0144') ==
144`` and ``int('0x144')`` raises :exc:`ValueError`. ``int(string, base)`` takes
the base to convert from as a second optional argument, so ``int('0x144', 16) ==
324``. If the base is specified as 0, the number is interpreted using Python's
-rules: a leading '0' indicates octal, and '0x' indicates a hex number.
+rules: a leading '0o' indicates octal, and '0x' indicates a hex number.
Do not use the built-in function :func:`eval` if all you need is to convert
strings to numbers. :func:`eval` will be significantly slower and it presents a