Eric V. Smith added the comment:
By using %s, you're asking the formatting code to first convert the parameter
to a string. Then, by using .10, you're asking it to truncate the value.
It's essentially equivalent to:
>>> str(-7.7176718e-05)
'-7.7176718e-05'
>>> str(-7.7176718e-05)[:10]
'-7.7176
New submission from pushpendre rastogi:
Hi, The string formatting module in python 2.7 incorrectly formats floating
point values. The following code shows the problem
>>> print "%.10s"%(-7.7176718e-05)
-7.7176718
>> print "%.10s"%(-0.771767)
-7.71767e-
Ideally the code should have thrown a
