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Author Drekin
Recipients Drekin
Date 2016-06-08.14:34:24
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Message-id <1465396464.66.0.148764915141.issue27268@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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>>> float('foo')
ValueError: could not convert string to float: 'foo'
>>> float('')
ValueError: could not convert string to float: 

should be
ValueError: could not convert string to float: ''

The message comes from Objects/floatobject.c:183 but I don't understand how the empty string gets discarded.
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