[Python-Dev] PEP 515: Underscores in Numeric Literals (original) (raw)

Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Thu Feb 11 03:11:09 EST 2016

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

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