A funnily inconsistent behavior of int and float

[Mark Dickinson]

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