[issue32790] Keep trailing zeros in precision for string format option g

Stéphane Wirtel added the comment: Thank you for your PR and this issue, the PR is merged into master, 3.8 and 3.7. -- resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> resolved status: open -> closed versions: +Python 3.9 ___ Python tracker

[issue32790] Keep trailing zeros in precision for string format option g

miss-islington added the comment: New changeset e6b14c026fd9045a0d460b62dbcb512fca4c64ec by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.8': bpo-32790: Add info about alt format using GH- for 'g' in chart (GH-6624) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/e6b14c026fd9045a0d460b62dbcb512fca4c64ec -

[issue32790] Keep trailing zeros in precision for string format option g

miss-islington added the comment: New changeset 77878cadc58aaca234482dffbb5fe89c74c026fa by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.7': bpo-32790: Add info about alt format using GH- for 'g' in chart (GH-6624) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/77878cadc58aaca234482dffbb5fe89c74c026fa -

[issue32790] Keep trailing zeros in precision for string format option g

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[issue32790] Keep trailing zeros in precision for string format option g

Change by miss-islington : -- pull_requests: +15735 pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/16122 ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue32790] Keep trailing zeros in precision for string format option g

Stéphane Wirtel added the comment: New changeset d44542f9a231bf725ecd82eb640a672c759a8227 by Stéphane Wirtel (bchhabra2490) in branch 'master': bpo-32790: Add info about alt format using # for 'g' in chart (GH-6624) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/d44542f9a231bf725ecd82eb640a672c759a8

[issue32790] Keep trailing zeros in precision for string format option g

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[issue32790] Keep trailing zeros in precision for string format option g

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[issue32790] Keep trailing zeros in precision for string format option g

Mark Dickinson added the comment: > Maybe the documentation could also add this information in the chart for 'g' > here: Agreed that that would make sense. All the information is *there* in the docs (the alternate format is described a bit above that table), but it's not very easy to extract

[issue32790] Keep trailing zeros in precision for string format option g

Severin Wünsch added the comment: This meet my needs. Maybe the documentation could also add this information in the chart for 'g' here: https://docs.python.org/3.7/library/string.html#format-specification-mini-language as only into the running text. As I did not notice it. As the text in t

[issue32790] Keep trailing zeros in precision for string format option g

Mark Dickinson added the comment: The behaviour here is intentional, though the reasons for doing it this way are at least partly historical: it's the way that %g formatting works in C's *printf functions (see C99 7.19.6.1p8 for details), and as a direct result of that it's also the way that

[issue32790] Keep trailing zeros in precision for string format option g

New submission from Severin Wünsch : The documentation starts the the string format parameter 'g': General format. For a given precision p >= 1, this rounds the number to **p significant digits** and then formats the result in either fixed-point format or in scientific notation, depending on i