On Jan 30, 1:38 am, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Because 2. is the start of a float-literal. That isn't distinguishable for > the parsere otherwise.
Oh, excellent! I wonder why I didn't think of that--I was too busy in "get a field" mode it didn't even occur to me that the "." had a different context, no matter how much more obvious. >>> print 2. 2.0 >>> type(2.) <type 'float'> -Beej -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
