New submission from Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com>:
Type 'g' formatting for Decimal instances doesn't behave in the same way
as for floats when an explicit precision is given. It should strip all
trailing zeros from the result:
Python 2.7a0 (trunk:75309, Oct 10 2009, 13:44:18)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5493)] on darwin
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>>> from decimal import Decimal
>>> format(Decimal('123.00'), '.6g') # expect '123'
'123.00'
(When no explicit precision is given, Decimal formatting with type 'g'
tries to preserve the information about the exponent of the Decimal
instance whenever possible; this also differs from float formatting, but
it's intentional. This should probably be documented.)
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assignee: mark.dickinson
components: Library (Lib)
messages: 93835
nosy: mark.dickinson
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: test needed
status: open
title: g formatting for decimal types should always strip trailing zeros.
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2
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