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  r71627 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-04-15 16:26:36 -0500 (Wed, 15 Apr 2009) | 4 lines

  call __float__ on str subclasses #5759

  tests by R. David Murray
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 Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #5759: float() didn't call __float__ on str subclasses.
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 - The string.maketrans() function is deprecated; there is a new static method
   maketrans() on the bytes and bytearray classes.  This removes confusion about
   the types string.maketrans() is supposed to work with, and mirrors the