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Wed Feb 8 20:07:58 CET 2006 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-February/060552.html

[Raymond Hettinger]
> ...
> The asymmetric handling of denormals by the atof() and ftoa() functions is
> why you see a difference.  A consequence of that asymmetry is the breakdown
> of the expected eval(repr(f))==f invariant:

Just noting that such behavior is a violation of the 754 standard for
string->double conversion.  But Microsoft's libraries don't _claim_ to
support the 754 standard, so good luck suing them ;-).  Python doesn't
promise anything here either.

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