From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:46:16 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Remove news about float repr() -- issue 1580 is still in limbo.
X-Git-Tag: v2.6a1~129
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Remove news about float repr() -- issue 1580 is still in limbo.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index f4d1cc50e2..970e2303bf 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -139,10 +139,6 @@ Core and builtins
 - Issue #1620: New property decorator syntax was modifying the decorator
   in place instead of creating a new decorator object.
 
-- Issue #1580: New free format floating point representation based on
-  "Floating-Point Printer Sample Code", by Robert G. Burger. For example
-  repr(11./5) now returns '2.2' instead of '2.2000000000000002'.
-
 - Issue #1538: Avoid copying string in split/rsplit if the split
   char is not found.