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Mon Nov 29 09:35:05 CET 2010 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-November/106123.html

Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 5:42 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
> ..
>> I don't see why the language spec should limit the wealth of number
>> formats supported by float().
>>
> 
> The Language Spec (whatever it is) should not, but hopefully the
> Library Reference should.  If you follow
> http://docs.python.org/dev/py3k/library/functions.html#float link and
> the references therein, you'll end up with

... the language spec again :-)

> digit          ::=  "0"..."9"
> 
> http://docs.python.org/dev/py3k/reference/lexical_analysis.html#grammar-token-digit

That's obviously a bug in the documentation, since the Python 2.7 docs
don't mention any such relationship to the language spec:

http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#float

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