Raymond Hettinger <rhettin...@users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:
You're seeing the difference between str(.1) and repr(.1). When
printing the tuple, you're getting the str of the tuple but just the
repr of its contents ('%.17g'). When printing the number directly,
you're just getting the str of the number which is rounded to fewer
decimal places for display ('%.12g').
This is easily seen with a number like pi:
>>> from math import *
>>> print(pi)
3.14159265359
>>> print((pi,))
(3.141592653589793,)
>>> repr(pi)
'3.141592653589793'
>>> str(pi)
'3.14159265359'
In Py3.1, the repr computation was changed to show the shortest string
the where float(x)==x. In the case of .1, the repr and str value happen
to be the same (that is why Eric sees no difference in 3.1).
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nosy: +rhettinger
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