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Function defined in library builtins

oct(number)

octnumber

Returns the octal representation of an integer as a string.

The octal number starts with the prefix '0o' so that the resulting string is a valid numeric literal in Python.

numberinteger number to convert to octal

Octal representation of the integer
Code
oct(8)
Result
'0o10'
Code
oct(-8)
Result
'-0o10'

See also oct in the official documentation

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