Serge Stroobandt added the comment: @rhettinger I completely agree with not creating a backward incompatibility at this point in time.
The real issue is that decimal.to_eng_string() was written to a (unfortunately chosen) proprietary specification which does not entirely correspond to the engineering notation. A quick web search shows that a lot of people are in search of a *true* engineering notation implementation. In the phylosophy of "batteries included" it is a pity this useful and very common notation is currently missing in Python. I would therefore suggest adding a decimal.to_true_eng_string() with the true engineering notation. Hence, this bug could be reclassified as asuggestion for enhancement. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue26223> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
