>Apparently either you and the General Decimal Arithmetic spec differ >on what constitutes engineering notation, there's a bug in the Python >decimal library,
You've distilled it precisely, and as you've shown in a different post, it's the former. The Python decimal module seems to implement correctly Mike Cowlishaw's spec, but what that spec refers to as "engineering notation" isn't really what engineers actually use. That is, even with decimal.Decimal.to_eng_string(), engineers still end up having to write their own string formatting code. I think it's worth making the print statement (or print function, as the case may be) let us do engineering notation, just like it lets us specify scientific notation. --Keith Brafford -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
