Formatting operations should return something of type `str` on Python 2.

mdickinson / bigfloat

Python wrapper for MPFR, providing high-precision floating-point arithmetic

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Formatting operations should return something of type `str` on Python 2. #27

Closed mdickinson closed 10 years ago

mdickinson commented 10 years ago

Currently we're returning Unicode on both Python 2 and Python 3. While this is nice from a purity point of view, it would be less confusing to return a simple str on Python 2.