s...@pobox.com wrote:
> Someone please tell me I'm not going mad. I could have sworn that once upon
> a time attempting to convert numeric strings to ints or floats if they
> contained whitespace raised an exception. As far back as 1.5.2 it appears
> that float(), string.atof() and string.atoi() allow whitespace. Maybe I'm
> thinking of trailing non-numeric, non-whitespace characters.
Maybe you remember truly *embedded* whitespace:
py> float("1. 3")
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ValueError: invalid literal for float(): 1. 3
Regards,
Martin
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