New submission from Alexander Belopolsky <belopol...@users.sourceforge.net>:
>>> int('\xA11')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xa1 in position 0: invalid
start byte
This is inconsistent with other number types' behavior:
>>> float(b'\xA1')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ValueError: could not convert string to float: �
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messages: 113694
nosy: belopolsky, mark.dickinson
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: int() raises UnicodeDecodeError when called on malformed string
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Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org>
<http://bugs.python.org/issue9578>
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