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[Ben Finney]

Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> writes:

> An alternative would be to allow spaces.

I would prefer to allow space between digits in a numeric literal.

    1 2345 6789
    1 2 3 4 5 6789
    1 234 6789
    1  234   567 89
    9.876 543 210
    0xFEFF 0042

This nicely parallels the fact that space can separate chunks of a
string literal.

But that still leaves the following inconsistency:

    int('1 234 567')

That will currently raise a ValueError. Should it continue to do so
under this proposal?

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