Alexander Belopolsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: I like the idea in general. It is way too common for people to be confused by decimal representation of floats, so an obvious mechanism to display the true value will be helpful.
I don't think a promiscuous bin() will lead to obscure bugs. Antoine will have to give a specific example to convince me otherwise. I can see, that extending :b format to floats may be a problem, but this is not being proposed. As far as the proposed implementation goes, I don't like the fact that it always returns a fixed rather than floating point notation. (Try vis(1e100)). I think it should behave somewhat like "%g" format. If bin() is extended to floats, it may become confusing that hex() and oct() are not similarly extended. ---------- nosy: +belopolsky _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3008> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
