[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r64424 - in python/trunk:Include/object.h Lib/test/test_sys.py Misc/NEWSObjects/intobject.c Objects/longobject.c Objects/typeobject.cPython/bltinmodule.c

[Guido van Rossum]

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd say that bin and hex are special:  bin is natural because
> floats are usually thought of, and stored as, binary numbers.
> hex is special because it gives a compact way of representing
> a float, and because there's already a history of using hex
> floats in numerical analysis literature and in programming
> languages (C99, Java, ...)

Can you show us what APIs and output formats C99 and Java support?
Maybe we can borrow something from there rather than reinventing the
wheel?

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