%g and fpformat.sci()

2005-06-30 Thread Sivakumar Bhaskarapanditha
Hi,   How can I control the number of digits after the decimal point using the %g format specifier. I am not able to get more than 3 digits as shown below.   >>> a = 1.234e-5 >>> '%g' % a '1.234e-005' >>> '%.2g' % a '1.2e-005' >>> '%.4g' % a '1.234e-005' >>> '%.5g' % a '1.234e-0

lstat(fileName)[ST_SIZE]

2005-06-10 Thread Sivakumar Bhaskarapanditha
Hi,   I need your help in this. What is the type of os.lstat(fileName)[stat.ST_SIZE]. In python 2.0 I am getting it as int and in 2.3 it is long. Because it is an int in 2.0 the file size reported is negative for file sizes > INT_MAX. Do you know if this is a bug in 2.0. Are there other w