[3.12] gh-114070: correct the specification of ``digit`` in the float() docs (GH...

gh-114070: correct the specification of ``digit`` in the float() docs (GH-114080)
(cherry picked from commit 4f24b92aa0677ed5310dd2d1572b55f4e30c88ef)

Co-authored-by: Sergey B Kirpichev <skirpichev@gmail.com>

diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst
index 442cbdf1e6a7caab694f7d41dd25b1020985b137..b24680f9bc2a90050203b0923546ddf92f9af54d 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/functions.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst
@@ -668,16 +668,15 @@ are always available.  They are listed here in alphabetical order.
       sign: "+" | "-"
       infinity: "Infinity" | "inf"
       nan: "nan"
-      digitpart: `!digit` (["_"] `!digit`)*
+      digit: <a Unicode decimal digit, i.e. characters in Unicode general category Nd>
+      digitpart: `digit` (["_"] `digit`)*
       number: [`digitpart`] "." `digitpart` | `digitpart` ["."]
       exponent: ("e" | "E") ["+" | "-"] `digitpart`
       floatnumber: number [`exponent`]
       floatvalue: [`sign`] (`floatnumber` | `infinity` | `nan`)
 
-   Here ``digit`` is a Unicode decimal digit (character in the Unicode general
-   category ``Nd``). Case is not significant, so, for example, "inf", "Inf",
-   "INFINITY", and "iNfINity" are all acceptable spellings for positive
-   infinity.
+   Case is not significant, so, for example, "inf", "Inf", "INFINITY", and
+   "iNfINity" are all acceptable spellings for positive infinity.
 
    Otherwise, if the argument is an integer or a floating point number, a
    floating point number with the same value (within Python's floating point