[Python-checkins] bpo-27268: Fix incorrect error message on float('') (GH-2745)

[Cheryl Sabella]

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/4fa7504ee3184cff064e23fe6799e717ed0f9357
commit: 4fa7504ee3184cff064e23fe6799e717ed0f9357
branch: master
author: Pedro Lacerda <pslacerda at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: Cheryl Sabella <cheryl.sabella at gmail.com>
date: 2019-05-17T18:32:44-04:00
summary:

bpo-27268: Fix incorrect error message on float('') (GH-2745)

files:
M Python/pystrtod.c

diff --git a/Python/pystrtod.c b/Python/pystrtod.c
index 02a3fb57805c..4aa99d546caf 100644
--- a/Python/pystrtod.c
+++ b/Python/pystrtod.c
@@ -353,15 +353,15 @@ PyOS_string_to_double(const char *s,
     else if (!endptr && (fail_pos == s || *fail_pos != '\0'))
         PyErr_Format(PyExc_ValueError,
                       "could not convert string to float: "
-                      "%.200s", s);
+                      "'%.200s'", s);
     else if (fail_pos == s)
         PyErr_Format(PyExc_ValueError,
                       "could not convert string to float: "
-                      "%.200s", s);
+                      "'%.200s'", s);
     else if (errno == ERANGE && fabs(x) >= 1.0 && overflow_exception)
         PyErr_Format(overflow_exception,
                       "value too large to convert to float: "
-                      "%.200s", s);
+                      "'%.200s'", s);
     else
         result = x;