On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, Alan Gauld wrote:
> >>>> a = 123456.78
> >>>> print "%g\n%e\n%f" % (a,a,a)
> > 123457
> > 1.234568e+005
> > 123456.780000
>
> >Float number loses digits and becomes integer in the output ?
>
> Yep, I am rapidly coming to the comnclusion that %g is broken
> in Python. I must do some tests with gcc to see what it does
> with %g, it may be the wierd behaviour is coming from there.
> I've never used %g with gcc...
FWIW, (Cygwin) Perl gives a similar result:
> perl -e 'my $a = 123456.78;printf ("%g\n%e\n%f", $a, $a, $a);'
123457
1.234568e+05
123456.780000
The only difference being the two-digit vs. three-digit exponent on %e
(Python's 1.234568e+005 vs. Perl's 1.234568e+05).
Hmm.. Upon further review, Cygwin Perl gives 1.234568e+05; while
Activestate Perl gives 1.234568e+005. (For reasons that elude me,
Activestate Perl won't do the command-line version, but I don't care
enough to track it down.)
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