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/Include/floatobject.h b/Include/floatobject.h
index 3ec5af5..b9c79c7 100644
--- a/Include/floatobject.h
+++ b/Include/floatobject.h
@@ -76,6 +76,10 @@
*/
PyAPI_FUNC(int) _PyFloat_Repr(double x, char *p, size_t len);
+/* Used to get the important decimal digits of a double */
+PyAPI_FUNC(int) _PyFloat_Digits(char *buf, double v, int *signum);
+PyAPI_FUNC(void) _PyFloat_DigitsInit(void);
+
/* The unpack routines read 4 or 8 bytes, starting at p. le is a bool
* argument, true if the string is in little-endian format (exponent
* last, at p+3 or p+7), false if big-endian (exponent first, at p).