Guido van Rossum added the comment: On the one hand, if you want to format a float like that, you should use "%.0f". On the other hand, this should either consistently fail or succeed, not depending on how large the float is.
I think in 2.6 we can't change this, but in 3.0, I propose that all these accept only integers. I find the behavior of %x and %o with floats particularly anti-intuitive. On the third hand, we're expecting % to be phased out in favor of .format(), which allows floats of any value with the i, d, o, x format specifiers. So perhaps we should leave this alone? ---------- nosy: +gvanrossum priority: -> low __________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1716> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
