Rounding Bug in Python 2.0! - ugh

[Pete Forman]

"Tim Peters" <tim_one at email.msn.com> writes:

> But then we also have to replace the input routines, as getting away
> with that choice requires I/O accuracy greater than is required by
> the 754 std (so we can't count on vendor input routines "to work"
> well enough).

I don't see that the input routines need to be replaced.  Admittedly
the C Standard only recommends that decimals be correctly converted to
binary.  I'd expect that most implementations would round correctly.
Is there a reason other than poor QOI for rounding incorrectly?  I/O
is intrinsicly slow, so there would be little merit in using a
conversion routine that was faster and less accurate.

Output is a different matter as there is no standard way to display
minimal length decimals.
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