Mark Summerfield added the comment: On 2008-02-18, Mark Dickinson wrote: > Mark Dickinson added the comment: > > I know I'm coming a bit late to this discussion, but I wanted to point > out that the C99 standard does actually specify how many digits should > be in the exponent of a "%e"-formatted number: > > In section 7.19.6, in the documentation for fprintf, it says: > > "The exponent always contains at least two digits, and only as many more > digits as necessary to represent the exponent." > > Not that that's necessarily a reason for Python to do the same :)
I don't really see why Python shouldn't use as few digits as are needed:-) The patch I submitted just made the exponent at least three digits. But my aim was cross-platform consistency, and I still think (whether using the fewest digits, the fewest but at least 2, or whatever other logic) that the same logic should be used on all platforms since this makes it easier to test cross-platform applications that output numbers in exponential form. __________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1600> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
