[Python-Dev] Proposal: make float.__str__ identical to float__repr__ in Python 3.2

[Michael Foord]

On 29/07/2010 19:47, Mark Dickinson wrote:
> Now that we've got the short float repr in Python, there's less value
> in having float.__str__ truncate to 12 significant digits (as it
> currently does).  For Python 3.2, I propose making float.__str__ use
> the same algorithm as float.__repr__ for its output (and similarly for
> complex).
>
> Apart from simplifying the internals a little bit, one nice feature of
> this change is that it removes the differences in formatting between
> printing a float and printing a container of floats:
>
>    
>>>> l = [1/3, 1/5, 1/7]
>>>> print(l)
>>>>          
> [0.3333333333333333, 0.2, 0.14285714285714285]
>    
>>>> print(l[0], l[1], l[2])
>>>>          
> 0.333333333333 0.2 0.142857142857
>
> Any thoughts or comments on this?
>
> There's a working patch at http://bugs.python.org/issue9337
>    
+1

Michael

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