[Python-Dev] float formatting

[Dennis Allison]

Floating point printing is tricky, as I am sure you know.  You might
want to refrefresh your understanding by consulting the literture--I
know I would.  For example, you might want to look at 

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=93559

Guy Steele's paper:
  	
Guy L. Steele , Jon L. White, How to print floating-point numbers accurately, ACM SIGPLAN Notices, v.39 n.4, April 2004 

is a classic and worthy of a read.