> I sure wouldn't <wink>. Note that use of %f ends up calling > FixedPoint.__float__(), though, and so sucks users right back into > binary fp surprises: Hm, maybe we should have an optional __format_as_float_string__ method that the %f and %g specifiers can use. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)