On 12.10.16 04:30, Skip Montanaro wrote:
https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.1.html
It's the third hit when searching for 'float'. Assuming I understand
what it's saying. ;)
Thanks. Is that the "David Gay's algorithm"? That seems to apply only to
repr(), while the change I observed was in str().
In Python 2 str() for floats was equivalent to '%.12g' % x, and repr()
-- to '%.17g' % x. In Python 3.0 str() becomes the same as repr() (this
added too much noise). In Python 3.1 repr() (and therefore str()) was
changed to produce more compact representation if possible. This change
was backported to 2.7, but str() left different.
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