On 06/06/2017 02:32 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
> That's what I thought. If the OP's happy to upgrade to 3.6/3.7, of
> course, the problem disappears.
>
> ChrisA
>
As far as I can tell this affects all versions of python. Here are some
versions I played with:
2.7:
>>> float("")
Traceback (most
On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 7:28 AM, Terry Reedy wrote:
>> Yeah. Unfortunately this exception doesn't make good use of its args,
>> so you can't get programmatic information from it (this is true in 3.7
>> too actually). So if a change were to be made, I'd recommend putting
>> the actual string into e.
On 6/6/2017 2:29 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 4:22 AM, Skip Montanaro wrote:
On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 12:27 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
Or perhaps showing the repr of the string would be clearer.
This would definitely be better, I think, and require no special
casing of the
On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 4:31 AM, Thomas Nyberg wrote:
> Does it make sense to open a bug report? I'm always a bit intimidated by
> contributing to python, but the following patch does seem to work
> (against a new clone of the master branch):
Your original post talked about 2.7; when you say "mast
On 2017-06-06, Thomas Nyberg wrote:
> On 06/06/2017 11:46 AM, Jon Ribbens wrote:
>> On 2017-06-06, Thomas Nyberg wrote:
>>> My changes feel a bit hacky. I wanted to just drop a straight repr() in,
>>> but I didn't want to change the code too much since I assume the string
>>> formatting is alread
On 06/06/2017 11:38 AM, Jon Ribbens wrote:
> On 2017-06-06, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote:
>> ...but not the empty string:
>>
> float("")
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>> File "", line 1, in
>> ValueError: could not convert string to float:
>>
>> Maybe there were some backwar
On 06/06/2017 11:46 AM, Jon Ribbens wrote:
> On 2017-06-06, Thomas Nyberg wrote:
>> My changes feel a bit hacky. I wanted to just drop a straight repr() in,
>> but I didn't want to change the code too much since I assume the string
>> formatting is already there for a reason (e.g. "%.200s").
>
>
On 2017-06-06, Thomas Nyberg wrote:
> My changes feel a bit hacky. I wanted to just drop a straight repr() in,
> but I didn't want to change the code too much since I assume the string
> formatting is already there for a reason (e.g. "%.200s").
Just change the '%.200s' to '%.200R' and it should w
On 2017-06-06, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote:
> ...but not the empty string:
>
float("")
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "", line 1, in
> ValueError: could not convert string to float:
>
> Maybe there were some backward compatibility concerns that I lack the
> fantasy t
On 06/06/2017 11:22 AM, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 12:27 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> Or perhaps showing the repr of the string would be clearer.
>
> This would definitely be better, I think, and require no special
> casing of the empty string. Still, I doubt this would ever b
On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 4:22 AM, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 12:27 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> Or perhaps showing the repr of the string would be clearer.
>
> This would definitely be better, I think, and require no special
> casing of the empty string. Still, I doubt this woul
On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 12:27 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> Or perhaps showing the repr of the string would be clearer.
This would definitely be better, I think, and require no special
casing of the empty string. Still, I doubt this would ever be
backported for fear of breaking code might be out the
Stephen Tucker wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have just been thrown through an unecessary loop because of an unhelpful
> error message.
>
> I am running Python 2.7.10 on a Windows 10 machine.
>
> I incorporate sample output from IDLE:
>
> ~~~
On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 3:09 AM, Stephen Tucker wrote:
> I have just been thrown through an unecessary loop because of an unhelpful
> error message.
>
> I am running Python 2.7.10 on a Windows 10 machine.
>
>>>> print float ("")
>
> Traceback (most
Hi,
I have just been thrown through an unecessary loop because of an unhelpful
error message.
I am running Python 2.7.10 on a Windows 10 machine.
I incorporate sample output from IDLE:
~~~
>>> print float ("123.456")
123.456
>>> print float
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