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This patch improves parsing of floating point numbers by converting all the digits (integer and fractional) together into a number 1 or greater, and then applying the correct power of 10 at the very end. In particular the multiple "multiply by 0.1" operations to build a fraction are now combined together and applied at the same time as the exponent, at the very end. This helps to retain precision during parsing of floats, and also includes a check that the number doesn't overflow during the parsing. One benefit is that a float will have the same value no matter where the decimal point is located, eg 1.23 == 123e-2.
This directory contains tests for various functionality areas of MicroPython. To run all stable tests, run "run-tests" script in this directory. Tests of capabilities not supported on all platforms should be written to check for the capability being present. If it is not, the test should merely output 'SKIP' followed by the line terminator, and call sys.exit() to raise SystemExit, instead of attempting to test the missing capability. The testing framework (run-tests in this directory, test_main.c in qemu_arm) recognizes this as a skipped test. There are a few features for which this mechanism cannot be used to condition a test. The run-tests script uses small scripts in the feature_check directory to check whether each such feature is present, and skips the relevant tests if not. When creating new tests, anything that relies on float support should go in the float/ subdirectory. Anything that relies on import x, where x is not a built-in module, should go in the import/ subdirectory.