[issue1580] Use shorter float repr when possible

[Guido van Rossum]

Guido van Rossum added the comment:

Sounds okay, except that I think that for some folks (e.g. numeric
Python users) I/O speed *does* matter, as their matrices are very
large, and their disks and networks are very fast.

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