I don't know precisely how the decision is made, but in general one needs the pad spaces for printing arrays with > 1 row.
Friedrich 2010/6/26 Vincent Davis <vinc...@vincentdavis.net>: > This is a little strange and I am not sure what is going on. Look at > the number of spaced before the first number in the array. > >>>> x = np.array([629.54440098249688162, 26186.5470310494529258 ]) >>>> x > array([ 629.54440098249688162, 26186.5470310494529258 ]) > > 3 spaces before 629.544... > >>>> x = np.array([629.54440098249688162, 2634186.5470310494529258 ]) >>>> x > array([ 6.29544400982496882e+02, 2.63418654703104962e+06]) > > 2 spaces > > There are many different ways experiment, and I assume that the spaces > are there to help the printed array look better. The 3 spaces are not > there is the second digit is shorter. The thing is I can't think of an > example where the 3 spaces are needed. Is there an example? > > Vincent _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
