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

Michael Foord fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk
Tue Apr 7 17:41:06 CEST 2009


Mark Dickinson wrote:

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Discussion points ================= (1) Any objections to including this into py3k? If there's controversy, then I guess we'll need a PEP.

Big +1

(2) Should other Python implementations (Jython, IronPython, etc.) be expected to use short float repr, or should it just be considered an implementation detail of CPython? I propose the latter, except that all implementations should be required to satisfy eval(repr(x)) == x for finite floats x. Short float repr should be an implementation detail, so long as eval(repr(x)) == x still holds.

Michael Foord

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