CI test failure in parse_timedelta (got str that cannot be coerced to float)

[jakirkham]

s = '1-5.888938903808594e-05', default = 'seconds'
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    def parse_timedelta(s, default="seconds"):
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        """Parse timedelta string to number of seconds
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        Examples
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        --------
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        >>> from datetime import timedelta
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        >>> from dask.utils import parse_timedelta
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        >>> parse_timedelta('3s')
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        3
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        >>> parse_timedelta('3.5 seconds')
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        3.5
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        >>> parse_timedelta('300ms')
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        0.3
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        >>> parse_timedelta(timedelta(seconds=3))  # also supports timedeltas
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        3
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        """
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        if s is None:
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            return None
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        if isinstance(s, timedelta):
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            s = s.total_seconds()
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            return int(s) if int(s) == s else s
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        if isinstance(s, Number):
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            s = str(s)
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        s = s.replace(" ", "")
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        if not s[0].isdigit():
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            s = "1" + s
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        for i in range(len(s) - 1, -1, -1):
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            if not s[i].isalpha():
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                break
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        index = i + 1
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        prefix = s[:index]
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        suffix = s[index:] or default
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>       n = float(prefix)
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E       ValueError: could not convert string to float: '1-5.888938903808594e-05'
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../../../miniconda3/envs/dask-distributed/lib/python3.8/site-packages/dask/utils.py:1468: ValueError

https://github.com/dask/distributed/runs/2088606636

[jrbourbeau]

This error also appeared in a different test, distributed/tests/test_client_executor.py::test_map, over in #4563 (see this CI build)