Re: [Python-Dev] Float formatting and #

2006-04-28 Thread Tim Peters
[Georg Brandl] > ... > Reviewing the printf man page, this is okay since for %f, the precision is the > number of digits after the decimal point while for %g, it is the number of > significant digits. Still, that should be documented in the Python manual. Well, there are a lot of little details in

Re: [Python-Dev] Float formatting and #

2006-04-28 Thread Georg Brandl
Georg Brandl wrote: > Is there a reason why the "alternate format" isn't documented for float > conversions in http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq-strings.html ? > > '%#8.f' % 1.0 keeps the decimal point while '%8.f' % 1.0 drops it. > > Also, for %g the alternate form keeps trailing zeroes. > >

[Python-Dev] Float formatting and #

2006-04-28 Thread Georg Brandl
Is there a reason why the "alternate format" isn't documented for float conversions in http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq-strings.html ? '%#8.f' % 1.0 keeps the decimal point while '%8.f' % 1.0 drops it. Also, for %g the alternate form keeps trailing zeroes. While at it, I noticed a difference