[Python-Dev] PEP 3101: floats format 'f' and 'F' (original) (raw)
Daniel Stutzbach daniel at stutzbachenterprises.com
Wed Jul 16 17:14:23 CEST 2008
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On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Eric Smith <eric+python-dev at trueblade.com> wrote:
Does anyone know why 'F' is the same as 'f'? Wouldn't it make more sense to either drop it, or make it convert the exponent to upper case What exponent? Isn't the point of 'f' formatting that there is no exponent?
There's no exponent for small-magnitude numbers, but still an exponent for large-magnitude numbers:
'%f' % (10**100) '1e+100'
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