[Python-ideas] Python Numbers as Human Concept Decimal System

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 11:38:34AM +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:

> Hmm. Is the rounding done by float.__str__() an attractive nuisance?

It's not *rounding* precisely. Starting in Python 3.1, the float 
__repr__ will display the shortest decimal string that doesn't change 
the float's value.

Reading the issue tracker history for this change is informative:

http://bugs.python.org/issue1580

To the guys who worked on that, I take my hat off to you all.


-- 
Steven