[Python-Dev] Backport new float repr to Python 2.7?
Eric Smith
eric at trueblade.com
Mon Oct 12 17:00:53 CEST 2009
Glyph Lefkowitz wrote:
> I'd much rather have my doctests and float-repr'ing code break on 2.7 so
> I can deal with it as part of a minor-version upgrade than have it break
> on 3.x and have to deal with this at the same time as the unicode->str
> explosion. It feels like a backport of this behavior would make the
> 2->3 transition itself a little easier.
I'm +0 on making the change, primarily for this reason.
We can reuse the vast majority of the code from 3.x.
Eric.
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