Eric Smith e...@trueblade.com added the comment:
I believe this is a duplicate of issue 4482. I'm closing this and will
add everyone who is nosy on this to be nosy on 4482.
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resolution: - duplicate
status: open - closed
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Christoph Zwerschke c...@online.de added the comment:
This is a related problem on Windows:
'%g' % 1e400 - '1.#INF'
'%.f' % 1e400 -- '1'
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nosy: +cito
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Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com added the comment:
Assigning to Eric, at his request.
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assignee: marketdickinson - eric.smith
nosy: +eric.smith
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Changes by Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com:
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assignee: - marketdickinson
nosy: +marketdickinson
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New submission from Cournapeau David da...@ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp:
On windows, with python 2.6, s = '%s' % float('inf') is 'inf', but s =
'%f' % float('inf') is equal to '1.#INF'.
This patch fixes the inconsistency, by using the code from floatobject.f
format_float into stringobject.c
