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Mon Nov 29 00:08:29 CET 2010 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-November/106086.html

Am 29.11.2010 00:01, schrieb Alexander Belopolsky:
> On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 5:56 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> ..
>>> This definition fails long before we get beyond 127-th code point:
>>>
>>>>>> float('infinity')
>>> inf
>>
>> What do infer from that? That the definition is wrong, or the code is wrong?
> 
> The development version of the reference manual is more detailed, but
> as far as I can tell, it still defines digit as 0-9.
> 
> http://docs.python.org/dev/py3k/library/functions.html#float
> 

I wasn't asking about 0..9, but about "infinity". According to the
spec, it shouldn't accept that (and neither should it accept
'infinitY'). However, whether that's a spec bug or an implementation
bug - it seems like a minor issue to me (i.e. easily fixed).

Regards,
Martin

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