Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka+cpyt...@gmail.com> added the comment:
I concur with Mark. It is just an example. The regular expression which would support all possible forms of numbers (including exponent, underscores, non-decimal numbers) would be more complex and would distract from the main goal of the example. ---------- nosy: +serhiy.storchaka resolution: -> not a bug stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue40332> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com