[Python-checkins] r77519 - in python/trunk: Lib/test/test_strtod.py Misc/NEWS Python/dtoa.c

[Nick Coghlan]

mark.dickinson wrote:
> +     *  - the nd significant digits are in s0[0:nd0] and s0[nd0+1:nd+1]
> +     *    (using the usual Python half-open slice notation)

Could you include something here as to what gets stored in s0[nd0]
between the two parts of the number? Always \0? An arbitrary value that
isn't used for anything? That would keep me from wondering if there was
an off-by-one error in the indices of the second slice.

Cheers,
Nick.

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