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is the explicit octal sequence encoding supposed to be available or not in string literals?

Output:lt1/forums /home/forums 1> ;
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `;'
lt1/forums /home/forums 2> py2
Python 2.7.12 (default, Nov 20 2017, 18:23:56)
[GCC 5.4.0 20160609] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> len('\x07')
1
>>> len('\o007')
5
>>>
lt1/forums /home/forums 3> py3
Python 3.5.2 (default, Nov 23 2017, 16:37:01)
[GCC 5.4.0 20160609] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> len('\x07')
1
>>> len('\o007')
5
>>>
lt1/forums /home/forums 4>

'\007'

b'\377' == b'\xff' and int('0o377', 8) == 0o377 == 0xff == 255

Python 3.6.3 (default, Oct 24 2017, 14:48:20)
[GCC 7.2.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> len('\007')
1

(Dec-04-2017, 09:43 AM)wavic Wrote: [ -> ]'\007'

that's the implicit one. i'm asking about the explicit one where you specify that it is octal. and i am asking about what string literals accept, not numeric literals.

i thought string literals would accept explicit octal sequences so i included them in my conversion function. i guess i am wrong. i was too confident to RTFM or just test it myself.

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