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Author	belopolsky
Recipients	belopolsky, pitrou, rhettinger
Date	2008-05-30.18:53:37
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Message-id	<1212173619.94.0.158501348078.issue3008@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Another problem with bin() on floats is that it will be a one-way street because as far as I know, there is no function to convert a binary string back to a float. My last thought on this issue is that it will be helpful to add tobase(f, n) and frombase(s,n) functions to math module (and I withdraw my suggestion of using %g-like notation due to the conflict between E for exponent and E for 0xE). On the other hand, there is no need to mess up with builtin bin/oct/hex because with math.tobase float-capable extensions will be trivially implementable.

Another problem with bin() on floats is that it will be a one-way street
because as far as I know, there is no function to convert a binary
string back to a float.

My last thought on this issue is that it will be helpful to add
tobase(f, n) and frombase(s,n) functions to math module (and I withdraw
my suggestion of using %g-like notation due to the conflict between E
for exponent and E for 0xE).  On the other hand, there is no need to
mess up with builtin bin/oct/hex because with math.tobase float-capable
extensions will be trivially implementable.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2008-05-30 18:53:40	belopolsky	set	spambayes_score: 0.0197728 -> 0.019772826 recipients: + belopolsky, rhettinger, pitrou
2008-05-30 18:53:40	belopolsky	set	spambayes_score: 0.0197728 -> 0.0197728 messageid: <1212173619.94.0.158501348078.issue3008@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2008-05-30 18:53:38	belopolsky	link	issue3008 messages
2008-05-30 18:53:38	belopolsky	create