[Python-Dev] Shorter float repr in Python 3.1? (original) (raw)

Eric Smith eric at trueblade.com
Tue Apr 7 17:55:34 CEST 2009


Mark Dickinson wrote:

One PyCon 2009 sprint later, Eric Smith and I have produced the py3k-short-float-repr branch, which implements short repr of floats and also does some major cleaning up of the current float formatting functions. We've gone for the {fast, correct} pairing. We'd like to get this into Python 3.1.

Any thoughts/objections/counter-proposals/...?

As part of the decision process, we've tried this on several buildbots, and it has been successful on at least:

AMD64 Gentoo: http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/3.x/amd64%20gentoo%203.x/builds/592

PPC Debian unstable: http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/3.x/ppc%20Debian%20unstable%203.x/builds/584

Sparc Solaris 10: http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/3.x/sparc%20solaris10%20gcc%203.x/builds/493

The Sparc test failed, but that wasn't our fault! Our tests succeeded.

These builds are in addition to x86 Linux and x86 Mac, which we've developed on.

Eric.



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