gh-77748: Document that float() accepts bytes-like objects

[Qanty228]

fixes #77748
Update the float.__new__ docstring to state that float() accepts bytes-like objects.

• Issue: Explicitly mention bytes and other buffers in the documentation for float() #77748

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[skirpichev]

You should also modify the sphinx docs (https://docs.python.org/3.14/library/functions.html#float).

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[skirpichev]

It's a wrong place. Move it under the productionlist directive, after full description of the string output.

And rephrase somehow like this: "Bytes-like argument should contain only sequence of ASCII characters, conforming to the :token:~float:floatvalue rule."