Message 58424 - Python tracker

Message58424

Author	noam
Recipients	christian.heimes, gvanrossum, nascheme, noam, tim.peters
Date	2007-12-11.12:30:36
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In-reply-to	<1197364262.84.0.178722905638.issue1580@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>

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I think that for str(), the current method is better - using the new repr() method will make str(1.13) == '3.3000000000000003', instead of '3.3'. (The repr is right - you can check, and 1.13 != 3.3. But for str() purposes it's fine.) But I actually think that we should also use Tcl's decimal to binary conversion - otherwise, a .pyc file created by python compiled with Microsoft will cause a different behaviour from a .pyc file created by python compiled with Gnu, which is quite strange.

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I think that for str(), the current method is better - using the new
repr() method will make str(1.1*3) == '3.3000000000000003', instead of
'3.3'. (The repr is right - you can check, and 1.1*3 != 3.3. But for
str() purposes it's fine.)

But I actually think that we should also use Tcl's decimal to binary
conversion - otherwise, a .pyc file created by python compiled with
Microsoft will cause a different behaviour from a .pyc file created by
python compiled with Gnu, which is quite strange.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2007-12-11 12:30:37	noam	set	spambayes_score: 0.185933 -> 0.18593265 recipients: + noam, gvanrossum, tim.peters, nascheme, christian.heimes
2007-12-11 12:30:37	noam	link	issue1580 messages
2007-12-11 12:30:36	noam	create