New submission from Christian Iversen <c...@sikkerhed.org>: The documentation for string format options state that both %f, %g and %e default to 6 digits after the decimal point. In fact, %g always seems to use 5 digits by default:
>>> "%g" % 2.1234567 '2.12346' >>> "%f" % 2.1234567 '2.123457' >>> "%e" % 2.1234567 '2.123457e+00' But something much more insidious is wrong, because even when explicitly told how many digits to have, %g is one off: >>> "%.6g" % 2.1234567 '2.12346' >>> "%.6f" % 2.1234567 '2.123457' >>> "%.6e" % 2.1234567 '2.123457e+00' This can't be right? ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 147940 nosy: Christian.Iversen, docs@python priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: String format documentation contains error regarding %g type: behavior versions: Python 2.6, Python 2.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13433> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
