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  • Committer: Bazaar Package Importer
  • Author(s): Matthias Klose
  • Date: 2010-03-11 13:30:19 UTC
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      Written by Facundo Batista and implemented by Facundo Batista, Eric Price,
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      Raymond Hettinger, Aahz, and Tim Peters.
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   http://research.microsoft.com/~hollasch/cgindex/coding/ieeefloat.html
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      A more detailed overview of the IEEE-754 representation.
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   http://www.lahey.com/float.htm
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      The article uses Fortran code to illustrate many of the problems that floating-
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      point inaccuracy can cause.
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  :ctype:`double` to an ASCII string.
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The code for these functions came from the GLib library
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(http://developer.gnome.org/arch/gtk/glib.html), whose developers kindly
 
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(http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/stable/), whose developers kindly
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relicensed the relevant functions and donated them to the Python Software
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Foundation.  The :mod:`locale` module  can now change the numeric locale,
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letting extensions such as GTK+  produce the correct results.