[Diverting to python-ideas, since this isn't as clear-cut as you think.] Why exactly is that expected behavior? What's the use case? (Surely you don't have a keyboard that generates \u2212 when you hit the minus key? :-)
Is there a Unicode standard for parsing numbers? IIRC there are a variety of other things marked as "digits" in the Unicode standard -- do we do anything with those? If we do anything we should be consistent. For now, I think we *are* consistent -- we only support the ASCII representation of numbers. (And that's the only representation we generate as output as well -- think about symmetry too.) This page scares me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerals_in_Unicode --Guido On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Łukasz Langa <luk...@langa.pl> wrote: > Expected behaviour: >>>> float('\N{MINUS SIGN}12.34') > -12.34 > > > Current behaviour: > Traceback (most recent call last): > ... > ValueError: could not convert string to float: '−12.34' > > > Please note: '\N{MINUS SIGN}' == '\u2212' > > -- > Best regards, > Łukasz Langa > > WWW: http://lukasz.langa.pl/ > Twitter: @llanga > IRC: ambv on #python-dev > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/guido%40python.org -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
