[Python-Dev] Shorter float repr in Python 3.1?

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Tue Apr 14 12:44:13 CEST 2009


Mark Dickinson <dickinsm <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> But I'd expect that there are already similar issues
> with a 'fat' build of py3k on OS X.  After all, there's
> already a 'WORDS_BIGENDIAN' in pyconfig.h.in. I
> don't know where this is used.

It's used e.g. in unicode encoding/decoding, and in the IO lib.
If that constant can't take different values depending on the CPU arch, we have
a big problem.

Regards

Antoine.




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