Martin v. Löwis <mar...@v.loewis.de> added the comment: > Martin: in C I have the luxury of using 32 bit floats; not an option > in Python. Simple code doing the moral equivalent of NTOHL(HTONL()) > works in this case for C but wouldn't help for Python.
If you agree that Python actually behaves correct, I fail to understand what it is that you disagree with in msg131195 If all you want is a documentation change, can you please propose specific wording? > Even worse, there is no straightforward way (that I'm aware of) to > write portable tests for code using the 'f' format character. If you use numbers that are exactly representable as floats, the test should be portable to all platforms that use 32-bit IEEE-754 floats. If you then also use numbers without a fractional part, it should even port to non-IEEE platforms (as long as you don't test for the intermediate bytes). [...] > This test will fail when you use the 'f' format code. So use 6.25 instead. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4114> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
