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Author steven.daprano
Recipients BTaskaya, serhiy.storchaka, steven.daprano, wyz23x2
Date 2020-02-11.12:21:07
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Its not a bug, it's deliberately designed that way. 0000 is not ambiguous: it's just zero, in any base. 0012 is ambiguous.

There's a recent thread about it here:

https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/7IKEXSMVVDOTLHA7CNI7MIOBK4EU2ZSG/


If you want to change the behaviour, your first step is to get a consensus on the mailing list that it should change.
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