Marc-Andre Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> added the comment:
Mark Dickinson wrote:
>
> I'm less concerned about decimal points and the like, and more bothered by
> the fact that e.g., int(x, 16) accepts some, but not all, characters with
> the Hex_Digit property. This seems counter to the intent of the Unicode
> standard.
int()/float() use the decimal codec for numbers - this only supports
base-10 numbers. For hex numbers, we'd need a new hex codec (only
the encoder part, actually), otherwise, int('a') would start to return
10.
Any takers ?
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