From ea6ed77b3ed9d19a720dbbbd5db515f73843324b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: wmayer <wmayer@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Sat, 29 Feb 2020 00:20:21 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Base: [skip ci] improve repr() for quantity
 https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=43718
 https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=43431&p=369556#p369575

---
 src/Base/QuantityPyImp.cpp | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/Base/QuantityPyImp.cpp b/src/Base/QuantityPyImp.cpp
index c90dbbcee7..a1e3f1f7e2 100644
--- a/src/Base/QuantityPyImp.cpp
+++ b/src/Base/QuantityPyImp.cpp
@@ -36,10 +36,21 @@ using namespace Base;
 std::string QuantityPy::representation(void) const
 {
     std::stringstream ret;
+#if 0
     //ret.precision(getQuantityPtr()->getFormat().precision);
     //ret.setf(std::ios::fixed, std::ios::floatfield);
     ret << getQuantityPtr()->getValue() << " "; 
     ret << getQuantityPtr()->getUnit().getString().toUtf8().constData();
+#else
+    double val= getQuantityPtr()->getValue();
+    Unit unit = getQuantityPtr()->getUnit();
+
+    // Use Python's implementation to repr() a float
+    Py::Float flt(val);
+    ret << static_cast<std::string>(flt.repr());
+    if (!unit.isEmpty())
+        ret << " " << unit.getString().toUtf8().constData();
+#endif
 
     return ret.str();
 }