https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/231552c6f7e6fc5cc4b2f401fe63663fcb6c646a
commit: 231552c6f7e6fc5cc4b2f401fe63663fcb6c646a
branch: 3.14
author: Miss Islington (bot) <[email protected]>
committer: encukou <[email protected]>
date: 2025-10-16T09:50:01+02:00
summary:

[3.14] gh-140065: Lexical analysis: Correct note about leading zeros in 
floating point numbers (GH-140066) (GH-140167)

(cherry picked from commit 1624c646b045df15ba41d17ff03231978b80c3ff)

Co-authored-by: Stan Ulbrych <[email protected]>

files:
M Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst

diff --git a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst 
b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst
index dfa340763d9255..969da12690636d 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst
@@ -1308,8 +1308,8 @@ The parts are separated by a decimal point, ``.``::
    2.71828
    4.0
 
-Unlike in integer literals, leading zeros are allowed in the numeric parts.
-For example, ``077.010`` is legal, and denotes the same number as ``77.10``.
+Unlike in integer literals, leading zeros are allowed.
+For example, ``077.010`` is legal, and denotes the same number as ``77.01``.
 
 As in integer literals, single underscores may occur between digits to help
 readability::

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