Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment:

Sorry, I'm -1 on this:  outside Fortran, using 'E' for the exponent marker 
seems to be near universal.  It just doesn't seem worth adding the extra 
complication to the Python code, or going through all the various places that 
expect an 'e' (float literals in Python source, inputs to the float function, 
Decimal and Fraction inputs, complex numbers, etc.) and trying to decide 
whether 'd' should be supported there too.

Even in Fortran, isn't it normal to output floats and doubles using the 'E' 
format specifier?

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