float does not parse '0.000000E+00'

[Remco Gerlich]

Paolo Redaelli wrote in comp.lang.python:
> Mark Jackson wrote:
> 
> > Have you checked to see if you might have rebound float in that namespace?
> What do you mean? I does not know the meaning of "rebound" in python
> slang, although I've used it for almost 2 years...
> 10x in advance for your attention

He means that one of your 'from mod import *' commands may have overwritten
the name 'float' in the current namespace. Rebound it, in other words. Or
maybe some other command did that?

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