[Python-Dev] PEP 515: Underscores in Numeric Literals

[Georg Brandl]

On 02/11/2016 12:04 AM, Victor Stinner wrote:
> It looks like the implementation https://bugs.python.org/issue26331
> only changes the Python parser.
> 
> What about other functions converting strings to numbers at runtime
> like int(str) and float(str)? Paul also asked for Decimal(str).

I added these as "Open Questions" to the PEP.

For Decimal, it's probably a good idea.  For int(), it should only be
allowed with base argument = 0.  For float() and complex(), probably.

Georg