On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 5:56 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote: .. >> This definition fails long before we get beyond 127-th code point: >>>>>>> float('infinity') >> inf >> What do infer from that? That the definition is wrong, or the code is wrong? The development version of the reference manual is more detailed, but as far as I can tell, it still defines digit as 0-9. http://docs.python.org/dev/py3k/library/functions.html#float