Bug report

Actual behavior:

>>> float('\n')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ValueError: could not convert string to float: ''

Expected behavior:

>>> float('\n')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ValueError: could not convert string to float: '\n'

As long as the string isn't completely whitespace, it does display properly. For example:

>>> float('\nn')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ValueError: could not convert string to float: '\nn'

In addition to newlines, the same thing can be observed with tabs and carriage returns, or any combination of the three. I didn't test any additional whitespace characters, though they would likely behave the same way.

Your environment

• CPython versions tested on: 3.10.5
• Operating system and architecture: Windows 10 (64-bit)