the Grisu family acts as the default rendering algorithms in both the V8 and Mozilla Javascript engines (replacing David Gay's 17-year-old dtoa code) Hmm. I th

the Grisu family acts as the default rendering algorithms in both the V8 and Mozilla Javascript engines (replacing David Gay's 17-year-old dtoa code) Hmm. I think maybe a weekend hack is in order. Perhaps dtoa in Python can be replaced in a similar fashion, since Python maintains David Gay's algorithm as an upstream source. http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/fc831c49216d/Python/dtoa.c http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/fc831c49216d/Python/dtoa.c EDIT: Looks like there has already been some gripes about the quality of David Gay's implementation. http://bugs.python.org/issue9009 http://bugs.python.org/issue9009