float / double support in Python?

[Richard Jones]

On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 10:46 am, Brandon Van Every wrote:
> Terry Reedy wrote:
> > Python proper only uses 'floats' which (for CPython) are 8 byte C
> > doubles.
>
> Um, that's like, absolutely brain-dead to a 3D game developer.

What exactly do you hope to achieve by making a statement like this? You 
snipped the text to which Terry was replying, which was "For instance it's 
not acceptable to represent a float/double as a string, it has to be 4 bytes 
/ 8 bytes". Terry responded that Python does in fact use 8 byte floats. Where 
did you hope to go by out-and-out abusing the people who are trying to help 
you out? 


    Richard