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 guess what you're trying to do is split a date and put it in a list. This is what works for me:

>>> date = "28-08-2011".split("-")
>>> for i, num in enumerate(date):
...     date[i] = int(num, 10) # changes octal to decimal, thus losing the prefix 0
... 
>>> date
[28, 8, 2011]