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Author	mark.dickinson
Recipients	mark.dickinson, rhettinger, tim.peters, vstinner
Date	2022年02月25日.15:58:46
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I'd be happy to see `float.__setformat__` go, if it's not still needed for Python's test suite (which was its entire raison d'être). If no-one noticed the accidental misnaming, then it's pretty clear no-one's been using it. I'd like to bet that there are at least a few people out there using float.__getformat__, despite that its docstring says "You probably don't want to use this function". Maybe we could consider moving the information contained in __getformat__ to somewhere more accessible (e.g., a new field in sys.float_info)?

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I'd be happy to see `float.__setformat__` go, if it's not still needed for Python's test suite (which was its entire raison d'être). If no-one noticed the accidental misnaming, then it's pretty clear no-one's been using it.
I'd like to bet that there are at least a few people out there using float.__getformat__, despite that its docstring says "You probably don't want to use this function".
Maybe we could consider moving the information contained in __getformat__ to somewhere more accessible (e.g., a new field in sys.float_info)?

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Date	User	Action	Args
2022年02月25日 15:58:46	mark.dickinson	set	recipients: + mark.dickinson, tim.peters, rhettinger, vstinner
2022年02月25日 15:58:46	mark.dickinson	set	messageid: <1645804726.32.0.443904185901.issue46852@roundup.psfhosted.org>
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