Issue #5981: Fix some float.fromhex bugs related to inf and nan handling.
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Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #5981: Fix three minor inf/nan issues in float.fromhex:
+ (1) inf and nan strings with trailing whitespace were incorrectly
+ rejected; (2) parsing of strings representing infinities and nans
+ was locale aware; and (3) the interpretation of fromhex('-nan')
+ didn't match that of float('-nan').
+
- Issue #5920: For float.__format__, change the behavior with the
empty presentation type (that is, not one of 'e', 'f', 'g', or 'n')
to be like 'g' but with at least one decimal point and with a