A funnily inconsistent behavior of int and float

[Grant Edwards]

On 2008-04-06, Lie <Lie.1296 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,

IMO, it oughtn't.


>>>> float('-       345.083')
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> ValueError: invalid literal for float(): -       345.083

That's the behavior I'd expect.

> The problem seems to be that float can't accept spaces between
> the sign and the number while int can. Possibly caused by some
> missing regex statement. Minor and harmless (most of the
> time), but should be made known.

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