[issue9192] Add a a way to determine float format

2012-10-26 Thread Mark Dickinson
Mark Dickinson added the comment: What use-cases did you have in mind for this? (I assume that something motivated this report.) It seems to me that there's not actually much to say about the float format: the only format that Python realistically supports these days is the IEEE 754 binary6

[issue9192] Add a a way to determine float format

2012-10-25 Thread Ezio Melotti
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[issue9192] Add a a way to determine float format

2012-10-25 Thread Hieu Nguyen
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[issue9192] Add a a way to determine float format

2010-07-07 Thread Benjamin Peterson
New submission from Benjamin Peterson : At the moment, the only way is float.__getformat__() which is unpleasant and unofficial. Perhaps we could add a member to sys.float_info. -- components: Interpreter Core messages: 109488 nosy: benjamin.peterson, mark.dickinson priority: low severi