Mark Dickinson added the comment: In context, the doc is correct:
""" parse_float, if specified, will be called with the string of every JSON float to be decoded. By default, this is equivalent to float(num_str). """ IIUC, parse_float only comes into play once the JSON source has already been tokenized, and the tokenization stage has already rejected things like '.5' by that point. (The point of parse_float is that you can choose to turn numeric strings into decimal.Decimal instances instead of floats if you so wish.) I agree it could use clarification. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue19871> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
