[issue24281] String formatting: incorrect number of decimal places

2015-05-26 Thread James Luscher
James Luscher added the comment: Eric, I am not familiar with the 'g' format and did not know it was the default, but the documentation, read fully, is correct. It just took the response of Christopher Welborn to "wake me up" (it was a LONG day and I was "strug

[issue24281] String formatting: incorrect number of decimal places

2015-05-24 Thread James Luscher
New submission from James Luscher: Doc for 3.4: at 6.1.3.1. Format Specification Mini-Language indicates that: "The precision is a decimal number indicating how many digits should be displayed after the decimal point for a floating point value" Yet I find that I get this behavio