[Python-Dev] Python and the Unicode Character Database

[Alexander Belopolsky]

On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 5:17 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
>>>>>> float('١٢٣٤.٥٦')
>>> 1234.56
>
> I think it's a bug that this works. The definition of the float builtin says
>
> Convert a string or a number to floating point. If the argument is a
> string, it must contain a possibly signed decimal or floating point
> number, possibly embedded in whitespace. The argument may also be
> '[+|-]nan' or '[+|-]inf'.
>

This definition fails long before we get beyond 127-th code point:

>>> float('infinity')
inf