Mark Dickinson added the comment: > Oddly, with all of the strictness in JSON, the exponent-marker "e" > can be upper- or lower-case
I'd guess that the aim is that common floating-point output formats from a variety of languages are valid JSON. That would also explain why both '+' and '-' are allowed on the exponent, but only '-' on the significand, and why leading zeros are permitted on the exponent but not the significand. ---------- _______________________________________ 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
