New submission from Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com>: Proposal: make the str of a float (or complex number) identical to the repr of a float (or complex number), in Python 3.2. This idea came up a couple of times at EuroPython, and generally met with approval.
An open question: what should be done on platforms that don't support the short float repr? In practice, I don't think this matters too much: it's difficult to find such platforms. The simplest thing to do would be to make __str__ identical to __repr__ on all platforms. This change *will* inevitably break code; the question is whether this level of breakage is acceptable for 3.1 -> 3.2. I'll also bring this up on the python-dev mailing list. ---------- assignee: mark.dickinson components: Interpreter Core messages: 111268 nosy: eric.smith, mark.dickinson priority: normal severity: normal stage: needs patch status: open title: Make float.__str__ behave identically to float.__repr__ type: feature request versions: Python 3.2 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9337> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
