[Python-Dev] Shorter float repr in Python 3.1?

[Michael Foord]

Mark Dickinson wrote:
> [snip...]
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> Discussion points
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> (1) Any objections to including this into py3k?  If there's
> controversy, then I guess we'll need a PEP.
>   

Big +1
> (2) Should other Python implementations (Jython,
> IronPython, etc.) be expected to use short float repr, or should
> it just be considered an implementation detail of CPython?
> I propose the latter, except that all implementations should
> be required to satisfy eval(repr(x)) == x for finite floats x.
>   
Short float repr should be an implementation detail, so long as 
eval(repr(x)) == x still holds.

Michael Foord

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