[issue1779] int("- 1") is valud, but float("- 1") isn't. Which is right?

[Guido van Rossum]

New submission from Guido van Rossum:

I discovered that when converting a string to an int or float, the int
conversion allows whitespace after the sign, while the float conversion
doesn't. I think they should be consistent.

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components: Interpreter Core
messages: 59641
nosy: gvanrossum
priority: low
severity: normal
status: open
title: int("- 1") is valud, but float("- 1") isn't. Which is right?
versions: Python 2.4, Python 2.5, Python 2.6, Python 3.0

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