Evelyn Mitchell added the comment: Thank you Raymond for a detailed patch update.
I will mention that matlab does not support this conversion [1]. R doesn't support engineering notation, either. It may be that this conversion isn't expected to be part of the standard library, and people are more likely to write their own. [2] The rationale for engineering notation is that it corresponds to SI units of measure. [1] https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/newsreader/view_thread/22843 [2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8262302/python-fixed-exponent-in-scientific-notation ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue27720> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com