Re: [Python-Dev] string to float containing whitespace

2009-04-29 Thread Martin v. Löwis
[email protected] wrote: > Someone please tell me I'm not going mad. I could have sworn that once upon > a time attempting to convert numeric strings to ints or floats if they > contained whitespace raised an exception. As far back as 1.5.2 it appears > that float(), string.atof() and string.atoi()

Re: [Python-Dev] string to float containing whitespace

2009-04-29 Thread skip
Amaury> You are maybe referring to the Decimal constructor: Amaury>decimal.Decimal(" 123") Amaury> fails with 2.5, but works with 2.6. (issue 1780) Highly unlikely, since my recollection is from way back in the early days. Also, I have yet to actually use the decimal module. :-/

Re: [Python-Dev] string to float containing whitespace

2009-04-29 Thread Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
Hi, 2009/4/29 : > Someone please tell me I'm not going mad.  I could have sworn that once upon > a time attempting to convert numeric strings to ints or floats if they > contained whitespace raised an exception.  As far back as 1.5.2 it appears > that float(), string.atof() and string.atoi() allo