[Python-Dev] Expert floats (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim.one at comcast.net
Tue Mar 30 22:02:50 EST 2004

[Aahz]

I've read the whole thread, and I wanted to repeat a critical point for emphasis:

This doesn't help No matter what you do to improve conversion issues, you're still dealing with the underlying floating-point problems, and having watched the changing discussions in c.l.py since we moved to the different conversion system, it seems clear to me that we've improved the nature of the discussion by forcing people to get bitten earlier.

Then it's time to segue into the "how come str(container) applies repr() to the containees?" debate, which usually follows this one, like chaos after puppies <0.9 wink>.

Facundo's Decimal module is the only way to improve the current situation.

The only short-term way to make a big difference, certainly.

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