Question

In math notation, leading zeros are OK, as in 02. What happens if you try this in Python and why

Answer 1

if you try to use leading zeros including, you will get an error like this:

File "<string>", line 3

print(001)

^

SyntaxError: leading zeros in decimal integer literals are not permitted; use an 0o prefix for octal integers

because python doesn't support leading zeros in numbers