id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component resolution keywords cc work_issues upstream reviewer author merged dependencies stopgaps 8554 Failed RealNumber conversion from str in base 16. lfousse jkantor "{{{ sage: RealNumber(""1ffef"", base=16) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ValueError Traceback (most recent call last) /opt/sage-4.3.3/ in () /opt/sage-4.3.3/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sage/rings/real_mpfr.so in sage.rings.real_mpfr.create_RealNumber (sage/rings/real_mpfr.c:25128)() ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: 'f' }}} The problem arises because 'e' is incorrectly parsed as the mantissa/exponent delimiter. If Sage wants to follow MPFR in this regard, '@' should be used as a delimiter for base > 10." defect new major numerical hexadecimal, string conversion jason N/A