Martin v. Löwis <mar...@v.loewis.de> added the comment:
> 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.
That's not true. PyUnicode_EncodeDecimal could happily accept hexdigits,
and int(u'a') would still be rejected. In fact, PyUnicode_EncodeDecimal
*already* accepts arbitrary Latin-1 characters, whether they represent
digits or not. I suppose this is to support non-decimal bases, so it
would only be consequential to widen this to all characters that
reasonably have the Hex_Digit property (although I'm unsure which ones
are excluded at the moment).
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