Re: [Python-Dev] floatformat vs float_format

2009-01-01 Thread David Cournapeau
On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Eric Smith wrote: > David Cournapeau wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> In python 2.6, there have been some effort to make float formatting >> more consistent between platforms, which is nice. Unfortunately, there >> is still one corner case, for example on windows: >> >> print

Re: [Python-Dev] floatformat vs float_format

2009-01-01 Thread Eric Smith
David Cournapeau wrote: Hi, In python 2.6, there have been some effort to make float formatting more consistent between platforms, which is nice. Unfortunately, there is still one corner case, for example on windows: print a -> print 'inf' print '%f' % a -> print '1.#INF' The difference being

[Python-Dev] floatformat vs float_format

2008-12-31 Thread David Cournapeau
Hi, In python 2.6, there have been some effort to make float formatting more consistent between platforms, which is nice. Unfortunately, there is still one corner case, for example on windows: print a -> print 'inf' print '%f' % a -> print '1.#INF' The difference being that in the second case, t