[Python-Dev] Backport new float repr to Python 2.7?

[Mark Dickinson]

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> But str still has some value in py3k:  it protects users from
>> accumulated rounded errors produced by arithmetic operations:
> [...]
>
> I know, but this is much more questionable now. [...]

Would it be out of the question to make str = repr in 3.2, do you think?

Mark