Serge Stroobandt added the comment:
As per https://bugs.python.org/issue26223#msg259772 , can we please reopen this?
I kind of hate it when *real* issues are kept closed for years (6!) until
another lost soul comes by with the same itch...
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Eric V. Smith added the comment:
After discussing this with Mark at the sprints, I'm going to close this.
If someone comes up with a concrete proposal on python-ideas, we can revisit
it. But as it is, there's not enough here to go on.
There are a sufficient number of ideas and alternatives
Changes by Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com:
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Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu added the comment:
Too late for 2.7, but I would like this to hit 3.2. Some calculators have
engineering format as an output option and it would be good for Python.
This issue is being discussed in python-list in thread Engineering numerical
format The OP
Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com added the comment:
After the all-important issue of what letter to use (the folks on the
python-list thread suggested 'm', and it seems as good a letter as any, so I'll
use it in the examples below), there are some open questions:
(1) The exact form of the
Keith Brafford keith.braff...@gmail.com added the comment:
Ok, let's zero in on how this should work. I'll start the concrete proposal
discussion in terms of how it would have worked with the old-style specifiers
(since I am more familiar with that method) and we can bring it up to Py3K
Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com added the comment:
Before a patch, there needs to be a concrete proposal: how would this be
specified, and what would the precise semantics be?
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New submission from steven Michalske smichal...@gmail.com:
I started using the .format() on strings and was surprised that it was lacking
an built in format specifier for engineering notation.
For those unfamiliar with engineering notation it puts the exponent of the
number in modulo 3 so
Eric Smith e...@trueblade.com added the comment:
This would be a new feature, so it can't be added to 2.6 or 3.2. It's an
interesting idea, though.
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R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com added the comment:
Not likely to make 2.7, either, unless someone comes forward with a patch real
quick.
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Ezio Melotti ezio.melo...@gmail.com added the comment:
Before 2010-04-03, see http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0373/.
New features can be added only in alpha versions.
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