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

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Tue Apr 7 17:51:35 CEST 2009


It would have helped if I'd copied the list...

Sorry, Paul.

2009/4/7 Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com>:

2009/4/7 Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk>:

Mark Dickinson wrote:

[snip...]  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. What he said :-) Paul.



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