[Pythonmac-SIG] Re: Number format in IDE

[John W Baxter]

At 16:50 -0500 8/25/2001, Christopher Smith wrote:
>Hmm... I obtain the following results which show that STR() is
>a kinder presenter than `...` when it comes to showing the numbers.
>If the IDE could be made to use STR instead of REPR maybe this would
>help.  I don't know how to do that, however.

The quick easy way is to revert to an older version of Python.  A version
old enough to lie to the user about these things.  That may not be what you
want to do, for other reasons, of course...like teaching the new features.
Or teaching the 50 year old fact that floating point can be annoying.

  --John

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John Baxter   jwblist@olympus.net      Port Ludlow, WA, USA