Re: [Numpy-discussion] floats coerced to string with "{:f}".format() ?

2013-06-06 Thread Maccarthy, Jonathan K
I'm really showing my ignorance now, I think; so, the old-style "fmt % (tuple)" must use a different mechanism, and perhaps that's why np.savetxt never choked on a float32 for me before (yes, I am on a 64-bit system). In [8]: type(tmp.lat) Out[8]: numpy.float32 In [9]: '%6s %8i %11.6f' % (tmp.

Re: [Numpy-discussion] floats coerced to string with "{:f}".format() ?

2013-06-06 Thread Maccarthy, Jonathan K
ZZ2001123 -23.82' Thanks! -Jon On Jun 6, 2013, at 1:56 PM, Robert Kern wrote: > On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 8:48 PM, Maccarthy, Jonathan K wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> I've looked in the mailing list archives and with the googles, but haven't >&

[Numpy-discussion] floats coerced to string with "{:f}".format() ?

2013-06-06 Thread Maccarthy, Jonathan K
Hi everyone, I've looked in the mailing list archives and with the googles, but haven't yet found any hints with this question... I have a float field in a NumPy record that looks like it's being substituted as a string in the Python "{:f}".format() mini-language, thus throwing an error: In [