[Python-Dev] floatformat vs float_format (original) (raw)

David Cournapeau cournape at gmail.com
Thu Jan 1 07:11:11 CET 2009

Hi,

In python 2.6, there have been some effort to make float formatting more consistent between platforms, which is nice. Unfortunately, there is still one corner case, for example on windows:

print a -> print 'inf' print '%f' % a -> print '1.#INF'

The difference being that in the second case, the formatting is done in floatformat.c (in stringobject.c), whereas in the first case, it is done in format_float (in floatobject.c). Shouldn't both functions be calling the same underlying implementation, to avoid those inconsistencies ?

thanks,

David

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