[issue3028] tokenize module: normal lines, not "logical"

2008-06-02 Thread Noam Raphael
New submission from Noam Raphael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hello, The documentation of the tokenize module says: "The line passed is the *logical* line; continuation lines are included." Some background: The tokenize module splits a python source into tokens, and says for each token

[issue3028] tokenize module: normal lines, not "logical"

2008-06-08 Thread Noam Raphael
Noam Raphael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Can I suggest that you also add something like "The row indices in the (row, column) tuples, however, are physical, and don't treat continuation lines specially."? It's just that it took me some time to understand you

[issue8048] doctest assumes sys.displayhook hasn't been touched

2010-03-03 Thread Noam Raphael
New submission from Noam Raphael : Hello, This bug is the cause of a bug reported about DreamPie: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/530969 DreamPie (http://dreampie.sourceforge.net) changes sys.displayhook so that values will be sent to the parent process instead of being printed in stdout

[issue1580] Use shorter float repr when possible

2007-12-10 Thread Noam Raphael
Noam Raphael added the comment: I don't know, for me it works fine, even after downloading a fresh SVN copy. On what platform does it happen? __ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python

[issue1580] Use shorter float repr when possible

2007-12-10 Thread Noam Raphael
Noam Raphael added the comment: I also use linux on x86. I think that byte order would cause different results (the repr of a random float shouldn't be "1.0".) Does the test case run ok? Because if it does, it's really strange. -- ve

[issue1580] Use shorter float repr when possible

2007-12-10 Thread Noam Raphael
Noam Raphael added the comment: Oh, this is sad. Now I know why Tcl have implemented also a decimal to binary routine. Perhaps we can simply use both their routines? If I am not mistaken, their only real dependency is on a library which allows arbitrary long integers, called tommath, from which

[issue1580] Use shorter float repr when possible

2007-12-11 Thread Noam Raphael
Noam Raphael added the comment: The Tcl code can be fonund here: http://tcl.cvs.sourceforge.net/tcl/tcl/generic/tclStrToD.c?view=markup What Tim says gives another reason for using that code - it means that currently, the compilation of the same source code on two platforms can result in a code

[issue1580] Use shorter float repr when possible

2007-12-11 Thread Noam Raphael
Noam Raphael added the comment: I think that for str(), the current method is better - using the new repr() method will make str(1.1*3) == '3.3003', instead of '3.3'. (The repr is right - you can check, and 1.1*3 != 3.3. But for str() purposes it's fine.)

[issue1580] Use shorter float repr when possible

2007-12-11 Thread Noam Raphael
Noam Raphael added the comment: If I think about it some more, why not get rid of all the float platform-dependencies and define how +inf, -inf and nan behave? I think that it means: * inf and -inf are legitimate floats just like any other float. Perhaps there should be a builtin Inf, or at

[issue1580] Use shorter float repr when possible

2007-12-11 Thread Noam Raphael
Noam Raphael added the comment: ‎That's right, but the standard also defines that 0.0/0 -> nan, and 1.0/0 -> inf, but instead we raise an exception. It's just that in Python, every object is expected to be equal to itself. Otherwise, how can I check if

[issue1580] Use shorter float repr when possible

2007-12-11 Thread Noam Raphael
Noam Raphael added the comment: If I understand correctly, there are two main concerns: speed and portability. I think that they are both not that terrible. How about this: * For IEEE-754 hardware, we implement decimal/binary conversions, and define the exact behaviour of floats. * For non-IEEE

[issue1580] Use shorter float repr when possible

2007-12-11 Thread Noam Raphael
Noam Raphael added the comment: If I were in that situation I would prefer to store the binary representation. But if someone really needs to store decimal floats, we can add a method "fast_repr" which always calculates 17 decimal digits. Decimal to binary conversion, in any case, sh

[issue1580] Use shorter float repr when possible

2007-12-12 Thread Noam Raphael
Noam Raphael added the comment: Ok, so if I understand correctly, the ideal thing would be to implement decimal to binary conversion by ourselves. This would make str <-> float conversion do the same thing on all platforms, and would make repr(1.1)=='1.1'. This would also al

[issue1580] Use shorter float repr when possible

2007-12-13 Thread Noam Raphael
Noam Raphael added the comment: 2007/12/13, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Ok, so if I understand correctly, the ideal thing would be to > > implement decimal to binary conversion by ourselves. This would make > > str <-> float conversion do the

[issue1580] Use shorter float repr when possible

2007-12-17 Thread Noam Raphael
Noam Raphael added the comment: Ok, I think I have a solution! We don't really need always the shortest decimal representation. We just want that for most floats which have a nice decimal representation, that representation will be used. Why not do something like that: def newrepr(f):

[issue1580] Use shorter float repr when possible

2007-12-18 Thread Noam Raphael
Noam Raphael added the comment: I think that we can give up float(repr(x)) == x across different platforms, since we don't guarantee something more basic: We don't guarantee that the same program doing only floating point operations will produce the same results across different 754

[issue1580] Use shorter float repr when possible

2007-12-18 Thread Noam Raphael
Noam Raphael added the comment: 2007/12/18, Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The 17 digit representation is useful in that it suggests where the > problem lies. In contrast, showing two numbers with reprs of different > lengths will strongly suggest that the shorter

[issue1580] Use shorter float repr when possible

2007-12-18 Thread Noam Raphael
Noam Raphael added the comment: About the educational problem. If someone is puzzled by "1.1*3 != 3.3", you could always use '%50f' % 1.1 instead of repr(1.1). I don't think that trying to teach people that floating points don't always do what they expect them t

[issue979658] Improve HTML documentation of a directory

2008-01-05 Thread Noam Raphael
Noam Raphael added the comment: I just wanted to say that I'm not going to bother too much with this right now - Personally I will just use epydoc when I want to create an HTML documentation. Of course, you can still do whatever you like with the patch. Good luck, Noam -- nosy:

[issue7260] SyntaxError with a not-existing offset for unicode code

2009-11-03 Thread Noam Raphael
New submission from Noam Raphael : Hello, This is from the current svn: > ./python Python 3.2a0 (py3k:76104, Nov 4 2009, 08:49:44) [GCC 4.4.1] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> try:

[issue1580] Use shorter float repr when possible

2009-03-01 Thread Noam Raphael
Noam Raphael added the comment: I'm sorry, but it seems to me that the conclusion of the discussion in 2008 is that the algorithm should simply use the system's binary-to-decimal routine, and if the result is like 123.456, round it to 15 digits after the 0, check if the result evalua

[issue1580] Use shorter float repr when possible

2009-03-02 Thread Noam Raphael
Noam Raphael added the comment: Do you mean msg58966? I'm sorry, I still don't understand what's the problem with returning f_15(x) if eval(f_15(x)) == x and otherwise returning f_17(x). You said (msg69232) that you don't care if float(repr(x)) == x isn't cross-platfo