Let me be the first to state, most emphatically, that I'm not about to change anything, ESPECIALLY the Python core! Besides, I don't have check-in priviledges AFAIK and burgling Tim's pockets for the keys would probably yield only pickles ;) still-nibblingly-yours David LeBlanc Seattle, WA USA > -----Original Message----- > From: guido@python.org [mailto:guido@python.org] > Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 17:01 > To: David LeBlanc > Cc: python-dev@python.org > Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] FixedPoint and % specifiers. > > > > Displaying FixedPoints: > > > > Python 2.2.1 (#34, Jul 16 2002, 16:25:42) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 > > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > > Alternative ReadLine 1.5 -- Copyright 2001, Chris Gonnerman > > >>> from fixedpoint import * > > >>> a = FixedPoint(2.135) > > >>> print '%d' % (a) > > 2 > > >>> print '%4d' % (a) > > 2 > > >>> print '%e' % (a) > > 2.130000e+000 > > >>> print '%f' % (a) > > 2.130000 > > >>> print '%2f' % (a) > > 2.130000 > > >>> print '%.2d' % (a) > > 02 > > >>> print '%s' % (a) > > 2.13 > > >>> a.set_precision(4) > > >>> print '%s' % (a) > > 2.1300 > > > > I naively expected the %d to produce 2.315 > > Eh? In C as well as Python, %d means decimal *integer*. The format > specifier to use fixed point notation is %f. > > Please don't change this! > > --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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