repr/str diff between Python 2 and 3

Skip Montanaro skip.montanaro at gmail.com
Tue Oct 11 21:30:43 EDT 2016


>   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().

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