[New-bugs-announce] [issue9337] Make float.__str__ behave identically to float.__repr__

Mark Dickinson report at bugs.python.org
Fri Jul 23 12:31:00 CEST 2010


New submission from Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com>:

Proposal:  make the str of a float (or complex number) identical to the repr of a float (or complex number), in Python 3.2.  This idea came up a couple of times at EuroPython, and generally met with approval.

An open question: what should be done on platforms that don't support the short float repr?  In practice, I don't think this matters too much:  it's difficult to find such platforms.  The simplest thing to do would be to make __str__ identical to __repr__ on all platforms.

This change *will* inevitably break code;  the question is whether this level of breakage is acceptable for 3.1 -> 3.2.

I'll also bring this up on the python-dev mailing list.

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assignee: mark.dickinson
components: Interpreter Core
messages: 111268
nosy: eric.smith, mark.dickinson
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: needs patch
status: open
title: Make float.__str__ behave identically to float.__repr__
type: feature request
versions: Python 3.2

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