Guido van Rossum wrote:
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 7:35 AM, Eric Smith
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Does anyone know why 'F' is the same as 'f'? Wouldn't it make more sense to
either drop it, or make it convert the exponent to upper case (like 'E' and
'G')? Compatibility with %-formatting is the only reason I can think of to
keep up, but I get the sense we've given up on an automatic conversion from
%-formatting to str.format(). Plus, I can find no uses of '%F' in the
standard library.
My best guess as to why 'F' is the same as 'f' is that somebody
(could've been me :-) thought, like several others in this thread,
that %f never prints an exponent. I agree that making it emit an 'E'
when an exponent is used is the right thing to do. Do it now!
It shares code with %-formatting. Change that, too? I couldn't find
any occurrences of %F in the stdlib. Not that that's the entire
universe, of course.
The change is slightly less elegant if I don't change %-formatting, but
still doable, especially if the betas don't get cut today.
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