[issue12245] Document the meaning of FLT_ROUNDS constants for sys.float_info

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[issue12245] Document the meaning of FLT_ROUNDS constants for sys.float_info

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset de1ecda2afa2 by Mark Dickinson in branch '2.7': Issue #12245: Document sys.float_info.rounds better. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/de1ecda2afa2 New changeset 795c184b0282 by Mark Dickinson in branch '3.2': Issue #12245: Document sys.float_info.r

[issue12245] Document the meaning of FLT_ROUNDS constants for sys.float_info

Ezio Melotti added the comment: LGTM -- nosy: +ezio.melotti stage: -> commit review ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mail

[issue12245] Document the meaning of FLT_ROUNDS constants for sys.float_info

Mark Dickinson added the comment: Patch that elaborates a bit on the meaning of sys.float_info.rounds. -- keywords: +patch Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file22454/issue12245.patch ___ Python tracker _

[issue12245] Document the meaning of FLT_ROUNDS constants for sys.float_info

Mark Dickinson added the comment: > all it does is give information about the FPU settings at the time that > Python was compiled Hmm. It's actually a bit better than that: as far as I can tell, it reflects the value of FLT_ROUNDS at the time that Python is started (when the sys module is i

[issue12245] Document the meaning of FLT_ROUNDS constants for sys.float_info

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[issue12245] Document the meaning of FLT_ROUNDS constants for sys.float_info

Mark Dickinson added the comment: float_info.rounds is a bit of an odd fish, and I think it was probably a mistake to include it in sys.float_info in the first place. All the other float_info fields relate to parameters of the floating-point format, which is fixed, useful information. In con

[issue12245] Document the meaning of FLT_ROUNDS constants for sys.float_info

New submission from Raymond Hettinger : >>> sys.float_info.rounds 1 -- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 137493 nosy: docs@python, rhettinger priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Document the meaning of FLT_ROUNDS constants for sys.float_info vers