[Python-Dev] Python and the Unicode Character Database

[Alexander Belopolsky]

On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 5:56 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
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>> This definition fails long before we get beyond 127-th code point:
>>
>>>>> float('infinity')
>> inf
>
> What do infer from that? That the definition is wrong, or the code is wrong?

The development version of the reference manual is more detailed, but
as far as I can tell, it still defines digit as 0-9.

http://docs.python.org/dev/py3k/library/functions.html#float