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- Remove the second mention about the `u` prefix
- Remove the second mention about numeric literals do not include a sign
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may only contain ASCII characters; bytes with a numeric value of 128 or greater
must be expressed with escapes.

As of Python 3.3 it is possible again to prefix string literals with a
``u`` prefix to simplify maintenance of dual 2.x and 3.x codebases.

Both string and bytes literals may optionally be prefixed with a letter ``'r'``
or ``'R'``; such strings are called :dfn:`raw strings` and treat backslashes as
literal characters. As a result, in string literals, ``'\U'`` and ``'\u'``
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3.14 10. .001 1e100 3.14e-10 0e0 3.14_15_93

Note that numeric literals do not include a sign; a phrase like ``-1`` is
actually an expression composed of the unary operator ``-`` and the literal
``1``.

.. versionchanged:: 3.6
Underscores are now allowed for grouping purposes in literals.

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