[issue2813] No float formatting in PyString_FromFormat

Mark Dickinson added the comment: Okay, I've failed to take this forward. Reclosing as out of date. -- resolution: -> out of date status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue2813] No float formatting in PyString_FromFormat

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[issue2813] No float formatting in PyString_FromFormat

Mark Dickinson added the comment: Jean may have no interest in moving this forward, but I do. (Which is why I assigned the issue to me.) -- resolution: out of date -> status: closed -> open ___ Python tracker __

[issue2813] No float formatting in PyString_FromFormat

Mark Lawrence added the comment: Closing as Jean has no interest in keeping it open. -- resolution: -> out of date status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___

[issue2813] No float formatting in PyString_FromFormat

Jean Brouwers added the comment: Mark L, No, I do not intend to take this issue further. Rather the opposite, it should probably be paired down based on the recent comments. Specifically, use PyOS_double_to_string, remove support for long double and perhaps more. Also, the patches I create

[issue2813] No float formatting in PyString_FromFormat

Mark Dickinson added the comment: I'll take a look at this. -- assignee: -> mark.dickinson ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-lis

[issue2813] No float formatting in PyString_FromFormat

Mark Lawrence added the comment: Jean, do you intend taking this issue any further or can it be closed? -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue2813] No float formatting in PyString_FromFormat

Mark Dickinson added the comment: I also think it would be good to use PyOS_double_to_string here. That does make it impossible to format long doubles, though, except by doing a possibly lossy conversion to double first. As far as I can see, Python doesn't use long double anywhere outside the

[issue2813] No float formatting in PyString_FromFormat

Eric Smith added the comment: >From the code: /* assume %f produces at most (L)DBL_DIG digits before and after the decimal point, plus the latter plus a sign */ This is not correct. DBL_DIG is 15 on my x86 Linux machine. printf("%.*f\n", DBL_DIG, 1e20) produces a string that's 37 ch

[issue2813] No float formatting in PyString_FromFormat

Changes by Daniel Diniz : -- nosy: +eric.smith priority: -> normal stage: -> patch review versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.2 -Python 2.1.1, Python 2.1.2, Python 2.2, Python 2.2.1, Python 2.2.2, Python 2.2.3, Python 2.3, Python 2.4, Python 2.5, Python 2.6, Python 3.0 _

[issue2813] No float formatting in PyString_FromFormat

Jean Brouwers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Here is another patch for PyString_FromFormat* adding support for 'l' and 'z' type specifications for the '%x' format and an optional '#' to prepend '0x' to the hex result. In addition, the '%p' format is handled as '%#x'. Updates for the c

[issue2813] No float formatting in PyString_FromFormat

Changes by Jean Brouwers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Removed file: http://bugs.python.org/file10705/stringobject_format_Lf.patch ___ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ ___

[issue2813] No float formatting in PyString_FromFormat

Jean Brouwers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: The tests for PyString_FromFormat are in file Modules/_testcapimodule.c. Attached is yet another update of the patch, this one also includes 3 tests for the new %f format specification added to file Modules/_testcapimodule.c. Added file: ht

[issue2813] No float formatting in PyString_FromFormat

Changes by Jean Brouwers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Removed file: http://bugs.python.org/file10703/stringobject_format_Lf.patch ___ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ ___

[issue2813] No float formatting in PyString_FromFormat

Jean Brouwers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Another rev of the patch now including updates to 2 documentation files: Doc/c-api/exceptions.rst and Doc/c-api/string.rst. As before the patch is relative to the source of Python 2.6b1. Where should test cases for the new formats in the Py

[issue2813] No float formatting in PyString_FromFormat

Facundo Batista <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Jean, you can increase *hugely* the possibility of this being accepted if you submit a comprehensive suite test for this. Thanks!! -- nosy: +facundobatista ___ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[issue2813] No float formatting in PyString_FromFormat

Changes by Jean Brouwers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file10703/stringobject_format_Lf.patch ___ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ _

[issue2813] No float formatting in PyString_FromFormat

Changes by Jean Brouwers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Removed file: http://bugs.python.org/file10702/stringobject_format_Lf.patch ___ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ ___

[issue2813] No float formatting in PyString_FromFormat

Jean Brouwers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Attached is another patch for file Objects/stringobject.c(relative to Python 2.6b1) which supports the double %f and long double %LF formats. However, %Lf is included only if symbol LDBL_DIG is defined in header file on the underlying pl

[issue2813] No float formatting in PyString_FromFormat

Changes by Jean Brouwers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file10697/stringobject_format_f.patch ___ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ __

[issue2813] No float formatting in PyString_FromFormat

Changes by Jean Brouwers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Removed file: http://bugs.python.org/file10696/stringobject_format_f.patch ___ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___

[issue2813] No float formatting in PyString_FromFormat

Jean Brouwers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Attached is a patch attempting to provide support for %f with precision in PyString_FromFormat* based on file Objects/stringobject.c of Python 2.6b1. Note, only %f is support but %lf is not and silently ignored. -- keywords: +patch n

[issue2813] No float formatting in PyString_FromFormat

duane Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Well, precision modifiers would be nice, but I don't think that they're necessarily needed. General floating point support, however, is needed. ___ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[issue2813] No float formatting in PyString_FromFormat

Ricardo Quesada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Do you expect to have support for float, double and long double ? Also, do you expect to have support for precision-modifiers ? -- nosy: +riq ___ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[issue2813] No float formatting in PyString_FromFormat

New submission from duane Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: There appears to be most of the formatting options in the *printf family... except for the obvious %f. Why is this crucial option missing? -- components: Extension Modules, Interpreter Core messages: 66586 nosy: duaneb severity: norm