Moshe Zadka moshez at math.huji.ac.il
Wed Nov 1 10:09:59 EST 2000

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On 1 Nov 2000, Pete Forman wrote:

> It would be nice if Python would make use of dtoa() rather than stock
> sprintf() to display floating-point numbers.  There are variants of
> dtoa in netlib and libg++.

netlib and libg++ aren't always available.
Python is meant to be portable...

And anyway, the problem isn't necessarily one of display: you have to ways
to display floats:

str -- inaccurate but readable
repr -- (more) accurate but unreadable

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