[Python-Dev] Re: [spambayes-dev] RE: RE: [Spambayes] Question (orpossibly a bug report)

[Skip Montanaro]

    Scott> I've been seeing a lot of "we'll have to use float(123)/100"
    Scott> messages floating around, and I'd like to point out there is an
    Scott> atof-able form for floating point numbers:
    Scott>            256.7654e-7  =  2567654e-11

This isn't a general solution because when that floating point number is
marshalled for storage in the .pyc file it will be normalized and contain a
decimal point:

    >>> f = 2567654e-11
    >>> f
    2.567654e-05
    >>> import marshal
    >>> marshal.dumps(f)
    'f\x0c2.567654e-05'

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