[Python-3000] Reconsider repr(0.1) == '0.10000000000000001'

[Georg Brandl]

Terry Reedy schrieb:
> "Noam Raphael" <noamraph at gmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:b348a0850712090033r61577b83hc8d8a324705ef0f7 at mail.gmail.com...
> | My use case is data manipulation in the interactive shell -

You could always override sys.displayhook in order to handle floats
differently.

> It seems your real problem is that repr() rather than str() is applied 
> within collections.  (I am not sure exactly why but suspect there is a 
> reason.)

Consider ["1, 2, 3"].

Georg

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