Not getting exact result in python with the values leading zero. Please tell me what is going on there

Question

zipcode = 02132

print zipcode

result = 1114

Answer 1

A leading zero means octal. 2132 in octal equals 1114 in decimal. They removed this behavior in Python 3.0.

Answer 2

In Python 2.x, number with a leading zero is interpreted as octal (base-eight). Python 3.x requires a leading "0o" to indicate an octal number. You probably want to treat a zipcode as a string to keep the leading zeroes intact.