On Mar 7, 5:12 pm, Piet van Oostrum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Python just uses the C library for printing, I presume, and the conversion > routines in the C library are rather simplistic. It is, however, possible > to do better, so that 53.6 -- although internally represented as something > that could be described as 53.600000000000001 -- will actually be printed > as 53.6.
There are issues with doing this portably and reliably. See http://bugs.python.org/issue1580 for a recent discussion. Mark -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
