New submission from steven Michalske <smichal...@gmail.com>: I started using the .format() on strings and was surprised that it was lacking an built in format specifier for engineering notation.
For those unfamiliar with engineering notation it puts the exponent of the number in modulo 3 so that it is in alignment with SI prefixes such as kilo, micro, milli, etc... 11,000 in engineering notation would be 11.000e3 At this time if i want engineering notation I need to use a function to convert it to a string and then print the string. Most inconvenient for a standard formatting used in the engineering fields. ---------- messages: 100413 nosy: hardkrash severity: normal status: open title: PEP 3101 string formatting missing engineering presentation type for floating point type: feature request versions: Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8060> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
