On Apr 6, 1:29 pm, Lie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've noticed some oddly inconsistent behavior with int and float:
>
> Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Mar 7 2008, 03:39:23)
> [GCC 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)] on linux2>>>
> int('- 345')
>
> -345
>
> works, but
>
> >>> float('- 345.083')
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> ValueError: invalid literal for float(): - 345.083
This is a known issue, that has been fixed for Python 3.0.
It was decided not to risk breakage by changing this in
Python 2.x. See:
http://bugs.python.org/issue1779
Mark
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