[issue10557] Malformed error message from float()

[Alexander Belopolsky]

Alexander Belopolsky <belopolsky at users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:

On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 6:03 AM, Mark Dickinson <report at bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> I don't much like the extra boilerplate that's introduced (and repeated)
> in longobject.c, floatobject.c and complexobject.c, though.
>

Yes, that's exactly what I meant when I called that code
"repetitious."  Maybe we can tighten this up during the beta period.
What do you think about adding number parsers that operate directly on
Py_UNICODE* strings?

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