str more precise in 3 as 2.7

[Mark Lawrence]

On 29/04/2015 12:24, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
> I am trying to make my modules also work under Python 3. I found that
> str is more precise in Python 3. The expression:
>      str(134 / 6.0)
> gives in 2.7.8:
>      '22.3333333333'
> and in 3.4.1:
>      '22.333333333333332'
>
> Was not very hard to solve:
>      if python_version == 3:
>          output06[5] = '22.333333333333332'
>          output10[5] = '23.333333333333332'
>          output10[8] = '24.77777777777778'
>
> Earlier I did:
>      import sys
>
>      # For when the difference between 2 and 3 is important
>      python_version = sys.version_info[0]
>
> At the moment I use it only once, but it is never bad to be prepared.
>

They simply output different numbers of digits by default.  Just control 
the number of digits that you want to see and in this case you needn't 
worry again about Python 2 vs 3 differences.  See either

https://docs.python.org/3/library/string.html#formatspec

or

https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#printf-style-string-formatting

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what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence