New submission from Martijn Pieters <m...@python.org>:
float(bytesobject) treats the contents of the bytesobject as a sequence of
ASCII characters, and converts those to a float value as if you used
float(bytesobject.decode('ASCII')). The same support is extended to other
objects implementing the buffer protocol.
The documentation, however, doesn't mention this:
> Return a floating point number constructed from a number or string x.
Everywhere else in the functions documentation, "string" refers to an object of
type `str`. Please make it explicit that `bytes` is also acceptedable, like it
does for the int() documentation.
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messages: 317022
nosy: mjpieters
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Explicitly mention bytes and other buffers in the documentation for
float()
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