On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
Guido van Rossum wrote:
[Jim F]
In November there was an interesting discussion on comp.lang.python about the meaning of __str__ and __repr__. One tidbit that came out of this discussion was that __str__ for longs should drop the trailing 'L'. Was there a decision on this? I'd really like this to happen.
Yes, I'd like it to happen. I'd also like repr() of a float to return the full precision (using the "%.17g" sprintf format).
While we're at it: how about adding a PyLong_AsString() API to the C interface ? I currently use PyObject_Str() in mxODBC and then slice off the 'L' -- not very elegant. A PyLong_AsString() API would much better suit the task.
Fred just checked in a change yesterday. PyObject_Str() on a Long no longer includes the 'L'. You're going to need to update your code :-) [ I've got some here and there to fix, too, with the idiom: if type(v) is type(1L): return str(v)[:-1] ] Cheers, -g -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/