[issue7919] reading scientific notation using d instead of e on max osx

2010-02-12 Thread ricitron
ricitron added the comment: I am running python 2.5.4. While it works on linux and windows, it does not work on mac. Fortran doubles are output using the D notation. If I am importing a large amount of data, I would rather not do a search and replace every time before reading in the data

[issue7919] reading scientific notation using d instead of e on max osx

2010-02-12 Thread ricitron
New submission from ricitron : I would like to be able to read in data that uses scientific notation with a D instead of an E. This is possible on windows and other builds, but not on Mac OSX. example: float('1.23D+04') Traceback (most recent call last): File "", li