[Pythonmac-SIG] Bug in float() ??

[Jack Jansen]

Recently, Chris Barker <cbarker@jps.net> said:
> line = '34.23, 45.43 , 987,   654  '
> print line
> 
> data = string.split(line,',')
> print data
> 
> data = map(float,data)
> print data

[...]

> I run in on my Mac, and I get the following:
> 
> 34.23, 45.43 , 987,   654  
> ['34.23', ' 45.43 ', ' 987', '   654  ']
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>   File "Chris's Machine:Python 1.5.1:test_float.py", line 8, in ?
>     data = map(float,data)
> ValueError: null byte in argument for float()

I can't repeat this on my machine. It may be a problem with 1.5.1 that 
has disappeared in 1.5.2b1, or it could be a 68k-specific problem (I
only tested PPC Python, and you don't say which architecture you
use). Could you try it with a newer Python, and give some more details 
on the machine if it is still broken?
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