Try again? I have no idea what you're asking. Obviously, str(i) won't look anything like str(1./6) for any integer i, so *that's* not what you're asking.
consider this code: PyObject* myfunc1(void) { return PyFloat_FromDouble((double) A / B); } (where A and B are constants (#defines, or spelled out)) and this code: PyObject* myfunc2(int a, int b) { return PyFloat_FromDouble((double) a / b); } if I call the latter with a=A and b=B, and pass the resulting Python float through "str", will I get the same result on all ANSI-compatible platforms? (in the first case, the compiler will most likely do the casting and the division for me, while in the latter case, it's done at runtime) </F>