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Author gvanrossum
Recipients alexandre.vassalotti, amaury.forgeotdarc, christian.heimes, gvanrossum, mark.dickinson, nascheme, noam, preston, rhettinger, tim.peters
Date 2009-03-02.00:15:50
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I tried that, and it was more subtle than that in corner cases.

Another argument against it is that on Windows the system input routine
doesn't correctly round unless 17 digits of precision are given.  One of
Tim Peters's responses should have evidence of that (or perhaps it was
on a python-dev thread).
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