[Python-Dev] string to float containing whitespace
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
amauryfa at gmail.com
Wed Apr 29 17:13:42 CEST 2009
Hi,
2009/4/29 <skip at pobox.com>:
> Someone please tell me I'm not going mad. I could have sworn that once upon
> a time attempting to convert numeric strings to ints or floats if they
> contained whitespace raised an exception. As far back as 1.5.2 it appears
> that float(), string.atof() and string.atoi() allow whitespace. Maybe I'm
> thinking of trailing non-numeric, non-whitespace characters.
You are maybe referring to the Decimal constructor:
decimal.Decimal(" 123")
fails with 2.5, but works with 2.6. (issue 1780)
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Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
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