On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 6:11 AM, bearophile <bearophileh...@lycos.com> wrote: > Don: >> But the performance would still be very poor, and that's much more >> difficult to solve. > > This may help: > > http://fredrik-j.blogspot.com/2008/07/making-division-in-python-faster.html > http://fredrik-j.blogspot.com/2008/07/division-sequel-with-bonus-material.html > http://bugs.python.org/issue3451
Though they may be useful, those don't look to have anything to do with formatting user types into strings, which is the subject at hand. --bb