Is there any reason why lVals = [1, 08, 2011] throws an exception?

Question

I have discovered one thing that makes me crazy. If I specify the following list:

lVals = [1, 01, 2011]

then no errors will be displayed, a

Answer 1

I don't really know Python, but I'd guess it takes the starting 0 as the beginning of an octal literal.