floor() function and mathematical integers

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <mailman.990829418.15526.python-list at python.org>,
Tim Peters <tim.one at home.com> wrote:
>[Aahz Maruch]
>> ...
>> For comparison, take a look at this routine from Tim Peters to convert
>> floats to strings (yes, Tim, I modified it to work with 1.5.2):
>>
>> ....
>>     return "%s%de%d" % (sign, top, e)
>
>They're you're in trouble in 1.5.2:  top can be a large integer indeed, and
>1.5.2 can't convert an unbounded int via %d.  You would have discovered that
>had you tested it <wink>.  Try this instead:

<sigh>  The version of doctest that I'm currently using only works under
2.x, so my 1.5.2 testing has been largely ad hoc.  I can't wait for
Cowlishaw to release his platform-neutral test cases.

>    return "%s%se%d" % (sign, repr(top)[:-1], e)
>
>The "-1" slicing is to get rid of the trailing "L".

Yeah, I know that one.  It's in other places in my code, given that I'm
using longs for exponents, and it's also in the long conversion routine.
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