This Python upgrade is based on Printing Floating Point Numbers Quickly and Accurately
and code samples can be found here: Floating-Point Printer Sample Code
This update mostly upgrades the way floating points are formatted through the repr python builtin function
The last Screen Capture is IronPython result for the repr call
Here is screenshot before upgrade PYTHONVS 2005 RC1A :
repr(11./5) returns an unexpected - from a user perspective - result
And after upgrade - PYTHONVS 2008 RC1B debug build :
and code samples can be found here: Floating-Point Printer Sample Code
This update mostly upgrades the way floating points are formatted through the repr python builtin function
The last Screen Capture is IronPython result for the repr call
Here is screenshot before upgrade PYTHONVS 2005 RC1A :
repr(11./5) returns an unexpected - from a user perspective - result
And after upgrade - PYTHONVS 2008 RC1B debug build :
after upgrading and according to Python latest source updates repr(11./5) returns 2.2
IronPython repr call results
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