repr/str diff between Python 2 and 3

[Ethan Furman]

On 10/11/2016 06:30 PM, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>>https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.1.html
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>> It's the third hit when searching for 'float'.  Assuming I understand what it's saying. ;)
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> Thanks. Is that the "David Gay's algorithm"? That seems to apply only to repr(), while the change I observed was in str().

But if __str__ is not defined, __repr__ is used.  And I believe that is the case with float.  Too lazy to check, though.  ;)

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