Raymond Hettinger added the comment: Right, there are plenty of exceptions to the suggestion of exactness. Still, I find the current behavior to be more helpful than not (especially when trying to explain the examples I gave in the previous post).
I'm concerned that the tone of the recent discussion shows a strong desire to just get something checked-in despite dubious benefits and despite long standing invariants. It is a bit cavalier to declare "we can give up float(repr(x)) == x across different platforms." Our NumPy friends might not be amused. If a PEP on this were circulated, I'm sure we would receive some frank and specific feedback. Likewise, I find it questionable that shorter reprs are helpful. Is there any evidence supporting that assertion? My arguments above suggest short reprs are counter-productive because they mask the cause of problems that might otherwise be self-evident. Of course, it's possible that both could be true, short reprs may help in some cases (by masking oddities) and may hurt in other cases (by masking the underlying cause of an oddity or by making a false psychological suggestion). __________________________________ 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
