[issue33567] Explicitly mention bytes and other buffers in the documentation for float()

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[issue33567] Explicitly mention bytes and other buffers in the documentation for float()

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[issue33567] Explicitly mention bytes and other buffers in the documentation for float()

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[issue33567] Explicitly mention bytes and other buffers in the documentation for float()

New submission from Martijn Pieters : 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 protoc