Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment: Closing this as a won't fix: as far as I can tell, the test failure is due to a platform deficiency (string <-> float conversions provided by the C standard library aren't correctly rounded; moreover, they're not accurate enough that converting a C double to 17 significant digits and back recovers the original double). It's not clear what Python can reasonably do to fix this. I'd prefer not to disable or weaken these tests, since they're useful on other platforms.
srid, if you do have any alternative suggestions about how this might be fixed then please do submit them. For what it's worth, this particular failure should no longer be a problem in Python 3.1 and higher, since 3.1 uses its own string <-> float conversion code (based on David Gay's dtoa.c). ---------- resolution: -> wont fix status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6646> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
