Backport of r59456:59458 from py3k to trunk
Issue #1580: New free format floating point representation based on "Floating-Point Printer Sample Code", by Robert G. Burger. For example repr(11./5) now returns '2.2' instead of '2.2000000000000002'.
Thanks to noam for the patch! I had to modify doubledigits.c slightly to support X64 and IA64 machines on Windows. I also added the new file to the three project files.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index c086be9..679f1fe 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@
Core and builtins
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+- Issue #1580: New free format floating point representation based on
+ "Floating-Point Printer Sample Code", by Robert G. Burger. For example
+ repr(11./5) now returns '2.2' instead of '2.2000000000000002'.
+
- Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split
char is not found.