A funnily inconsistent behavior of int and float

[Colin J. Williams]

Mark Dickinson wrote:
> On Apr 6, 1:29 pm, Lie <Lie.1... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I've noticed some oddly inconsistent behavior with int and float:
>>
>> Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Mar  7 2008, 03:39:23)
>> [GCC 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)] on linux2>>> int('-          345')
>>
>> -345
>>
>> works, but
>>
>>>>> float('-       345.083')
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>> ValueError: invalid literal for float(): -       345.083
> 
> This is a known issue, that has been fixed for Python 3.0.
> It was decided not to risk breakage by changing this in
> Python 2.x.  See:
> 
> http://bugs.python.org/issue1779
> 
> Mark

This is good but the documentation for 
3.0 is missing the syntax documentation 
from 2.5

Colin W.