Re: [Python-Dev] Different float formatting on Windows and Linux

2008-02-18 Thread Terry Reedy
"Eric Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | The tests for float.__format__ are breaking on Windows, because of this | issue: http://bugs.python.org/issue1600. Basically, Windows is using 3 | digits for exponents < 100, and Linux (and at least MacOS) are using 2. |

Re: [Python-Dev] Different float formatting on Windows and Linux

2008-02-18 Thread Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve
> The tests for float.__format__ are breaking on Windows, because of this > issue: http://bugs.python.org/issue1600. Basically, Windows is using 3 > digits for exponents < 100, and Linux (and at least MacOS) are using 2. Yes, this is very annoying and I once lost of lot of time because of the W