[issue10557] Malformed error message from float()

[Mark Dickinson]

Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com> added the comment:

About Alexander's solution:  might it make more sense to have PyUnicode_EncodeDecimal raise for inputs like this?  I see it as PyUnicode_EncodeDecimal's job to turn the unicode input into usable ASCII (or raise an exception);  it looks like that's not happening here.

Adding MAL to the nosy in case he wants to comment on this.

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nosy: +lemburg

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