Ezio Melotti added the comment:
The function was introduced by Guido in f5b55311e79d.
I think it would have been better if atof had another name (e.g. _atof) and
that atof and atoi were implemented as:
def atof(str):
return _atof(str, float)
def atoi(str):
return _atof(str, int)
Even better would have been to have _atof return the string without applying
any function, and let e.g. atoi return int(_atof(str)). This could have been
documented publicly and used to build other functions.
However it's probably too late for such refactoring.
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