[Python-Dev] Proposal: make float.str identical to float__repr__ in Python 3.2 (original) (raw)

Michael Foord fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk
Thu Jul 29 20:52:47 CEST 2010

On 29/07/2010 19:47, Mark Dickinson wrote:

Now that we've got the short float repr in Python, there's less value in having float.str truncate to 12 significant digits (as it currently does). For Python 3.2, I propose making float.str use the same algorithm as float.repr for its output (and similarly for complex).

Apart from simplifying the internals a little bit, one nice feature of this change is that it removes the differences in formatting between printing a float and printing a container of floats:

l = [1/3, 1/5, 1/7] print(l) [0.3333333333333333, 0.2, 0.14285714285714285] print(l[0], l[1], l[2]) 0.333333333333 0.2 0.142857142857 Any thoughts or comments on this? There's a working patch at http://bugs.python.org/issue9337 +1

Michael

Mark

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