[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r64424 - in python/trunk:Include/object.h Lib/test/test_sys.py Misc/NEWSObjects/intobject.c Objects/longobject.c Objects/typeobject.cPython/bltinmodule.c (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Thu Jun 26 22:28:20 CEST 2008

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com> wrote:

I'd say that bin and hex are special: bin is natural because floats are usually thought of, and stored as, binary numbers. hex is special because it gives a compact way of representing a float, and because there's already a history of using hex floats in numerical analysis literature and in programming languages (C99, Java, ...)

Can you show us what APIs and output formats C99 and Java support? Maybe we can borrow something from there rather than reinventing the wheel?

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