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  r78166 | mark.dickinson | 2010-02-12 21:16:38 +0000 (Fri, 12 Feb 2010) | 1 line

  Check that 'd' isn't allowed as an exponent specifier in inputs to the float function.
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Lib/test/test_float.py

@@ -107,6 +107,9 @@ class GeneralFloatCases(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertRaises(ValueError, float, "+.inf")
         self.assertRaises(ValueError, float, ".")
         self.assertRaises(ValueError, float, "-.")
+        # check that we don't accept alternate exponent markers
+        self.assertRaises(ValueError, float, "-1.7d29")
+        self.assertRaises(ValueError, float, "3D-14")
         self.assertEqual(float(b"  \u0663.\u0661\u0664  ".decode('raw-unicode-escape')), 3.14)
         # extra long strings should not be a problem
         float(b'.' + b'1'*1000)