Re: Unexpected scientific notation

2009-01-09 Thread Mark Dickinson
On Jan 9, 5:38 pm, Paul McNett wrote: > I'll clarify my LOL: Mark initially replied to me directly, to which I > responded > directly. Because he replied directly, I kept my response offline, too, not > knowing > if he had a special reason to discuss this offline instead of in public. Yup, def

Re: Unexpected scientific notation

2009-01-09 Thread Paul McNett
Paul McNett wrote: Mark Dickinson wrote: On Jan 8, 1:00 am, Paul McNett wrote: It displays '3E+1' instead of '30.0'. As I can't reproduce I'm looking for an idea brainstorm of what could be causing this. What would be choosing to display such a normal number in scientific notation? Ideas?

Re: Unexpected scientific notation

2009-01-09 Thread Mark Dickinson
On Jan 9, 5:16 pm, Paul McNett wrote: > Thank you for the insight. I believe the problem is with my use of > normalize(), but I > still can't figure out why I can't reproduce the issue in my running app. Me neither. In particular, I can't see how it could this output could come out of a locale.

Re: Unexpected scientific notation

2009-01-09 Thread Paul McNett
Mark Dickinson wrote: On Jan 8, 1:00 am, Paul McNett wrote: It displays '3E+1' instead of '30.0'. As I can't reproduce I'm looking for an idea brainstorm of what could be causing this. What would be choosing to display such a normal number in scientific notation? Ideas? [I thought I replie

Re: Unexpected scientific notation

2009-01-09 Thread Mark Dickinson
On Jan 8, 1:00 am, Paul McNett wrote: > It displays '3E+1' instead of '30.0'. > > As I can't reproduce I'm looking for an idea brainstorm of what could be > causing > this. What would be choosing to display such a normal number in scientific > notation? > > Ideas? [I thought I replied to this e

Re: Unexpected scientific notation

2009-01-07 Thread Paul McNett
[Some day hopefully I'll remember to change the to: address to python-list@python.org instead of the original sender. I always end up sending the first reply to the sender, then going "oops, forgot to hit 'reply-all'", and sending another copy to the list.] Ben Finney wrote: Paul McNett writ

Re: Unexpected scientific notation

2009-01-07 Thread Paul McNett
Robert Kern wrote: Paul McNett wrote: One of my users has reported that my app is giving them scientific notation instead of decimal notation for one specific value among many that display properly. I am unable to reproduce on my end, and this is the first I've heard of anything like this sinc

Re: Unexpected scientific notation

2009-01-07 Thread Ben Finney
Paul McNett writes: > The app bundles python 2.5.2 using py2exe. > > It displays '3E+1' instead of '30.0'. > > As I can't reproduce I'm looking for an idea brainstorm of what > could be causing this. What would be choosing to display such a > normal number in scientific notation? As I understa

Re: Unexpected scientific notation

2009-01-07 Thread Robert Kern
Paul McNett wrote: One of my users has reported that my app is giving them scientific notation instead of decimal notation for one specific value among many that display properly. I am unable to reproduce on my end, and this is the first I've heard of anything like this since the app's launch 2