[docs] [issue10610] Correct the float(), int() and complex() documentation

Marc-Andre Lemburg report at bugs.python.org
Fri Dec 3 10:18:21 CET 2010


Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> added the comment:

Raymond Hettinger wrote:
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> Raymond Hettinger <rhettinger at users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:
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> Try not to sprawl this all over the docs.  Find the most common root and document it there.  No need to garbage-up Fractions, Decimal etc. with something that is of zero interest to 99.9% of users.

That's a good idea. It may be enough to just add a new

unicode_decimal_digit ::= ...

to the language spec (even if it is not used there) and then reference
it from the other parts of the docs.

Same for unicode_digit and unicode_numeric.

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