Noam Raphael added the comment: I think that we can give up float(repr(x)) == x across different platforms, since we don't guarantee something more basic: We don't guarantee that the same program doing only floating point operations will produce the same results across different 754 platforms, because in the compilation process we rely on the system's decimal to binary conversion. In other words, using the current repr(), one can pass a value x from platform A platform B and be sure to get the same value. But if he has a python function f, he can't be sure that f(x) on platform A will result in the same value as f(x) on platform B. So the cross-platform repr() doesn't really matter.
I like eval(repr(x)) == x because it means that repr(x) captures all the information about x, not because it lets me pass x from one platform to another. For communication, I use other methods. __________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1580> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
