Ezio Melotti added the comment: The function was introduced by Guido in f5b55311e79d.
I think it would have been better if atof had another name (e.g. _atof) and that atof and atoi were implemented as: def atof(str): return _atof(str, float) def atoi(str): return _atof(str, int) Even better would have been to have _atof return the string without applying any function, and let e.g. atoi return int(_atof(str)). This could have been documented publicly and used to build other functions. However it's probably too late for such refactoring. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13918> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com