repr/str diff between Python 2 and 3

[Terry Reedy]

On 10/11/2016 9:30 PM, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>>   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().

Since str(float) is now, I believe, the same as repr(float), it means 
that in general, you have two possible changes to str ;-).

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Terry Jan Reedy