From: Stan Ulbrych <89152624+StanFromIreland@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 15:15:45 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: gh-140065: Lexical analysis: Correct note about leading zeros in floating point numbe... 
X-Git-Tag: v3.15.0a2~428
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1624c646b045df15ba41d17ff03231978b80c3ff;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

gh-140065: Lexical analysis: Correct note about leading zeros in floating point numbers (GH-140066)
---

diff --git a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst
index 0b0dba1a996a..ea386706e8b5 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst
@@ -1308,8 +1308,8 @@ The parts are separated by a decimal point, ``.``::
    2.71828
    4.0
 
-Unlike in integer literals, leading zeros are allowed in the numeric parts.
-For example, ``077.010`` is legal, and denotes the same number as ``77.10``.
+Unlike in integer literals, leading zeros are allowed.
+For example, ``077.010`` is legal, and denotes the same number as ``77.01``.
 
 As in integer literals, single underscores may occur between digits to help
 readability::