Hi, 2009/4/29 <s...@pobox.com>: > Someone please tell me I'm not going mad. I could have sworn that once upon > a time attempting to convert numeric strings to ints or floats if they > contained whitespace raised an exception. As far back as 1.5.2 it appears > that float(), string.atof() and string.atoi() allow whitespace. Maybe I'm > thinking of trailing non-numeric, non-whitespace characters.
You are maybe referring to the Decimal constructor: decimal.Decimal(" 123") fails with 2.5, but works with 2.6. (issue 1780) -- Amaury Forgeot d'Arc _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com