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gh-155339: Document the change of behaviour about parsing negative numbers from 3.14 in argparse - #155340

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.. versionchanged:: 3.14
Negative numbers in scientific notation (e.g. ``-2.5e-6``), with

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Please replace latin abbreviations with their English equivalents, see the style guide for more information.

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I removed 'e.g.' all together as spelling out 'for example' in all cases here seems too verbose.

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Just a slight change in wording and indentation!

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I have made the requested changes; please review again

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Thank you!

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Thanks @ptim0626 for the PR, and @savannahostrowski for merging it 🌮🎉.. I'm working now to backport this PR to: 3.14, 3.15.
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GH-155371 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.15 branch.

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GH-155372 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.14 branch.

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…tive numbers from 3.14 in argparse (GH-155340) (#155372)

gh-155339: Document the change of behaviour about parsing negative numbers from 3.14 in argparse (GH-155340)
(cherry picked from commit 8ed1479)

Co-authored-by: Timothy Poon <62692924+ptim0626@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Savannah Ostrowski <savannah@python.org>
savannahostrowski added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 8, 2026
…tive numbers from 3.14 in argparse (GH-155340) (#155371)

gh-155339: Document the change of behaviour about parsing negative numbers from 3.14 in argparse (GH-155340)
(cherry picked from commit 8ed1479)

Co-authored-by: Timothy Poon <62692924+ptim0626@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Savannah Ostrowski <savannah@python.org>
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