I would vote for a high level configuration.  Very few people need less 
than 0.0001", so a %.4f is fine.  I know of very few machines that need 
to be parametrized in millionths or less.  I also know of few machines 
which are also parametrized in meters or larger units.

Can you explain why you would want to print a position out in very 
small fractions of a nanometer?

   EBo --

On Apr 7 2016 10:19 AM, Niemand Sonst wrote:
> I also do not like the patch as it is, as:
>
> print (float(0.0000000001)) gives 0.000000
> so only 6 digits
> print (".10f" %float(0.000000000000000001)) gives 0.0000000001
> so 10 digits.
>
> Or we make it configurable or we set a higher digits number.
>
> I recommend as default to set it to "%.20f" and make it adjustable.
>
> Norbert (gmoccapy)
>
>
>
> Am 07.04.2016 um 03:33 schrieb EBo:
>> On Apr 6 2016 6:17 PM, andy pugh wrote:
>>> Discussed on IRC, jepler came up with
>>>
>>> 
>>> https://emergent.unpythonic.net/files/sandbox/0001-untested-work-around-1e-10-problem.patch
>>>
>>> (if Glade ends up with a very small number it might display 
>>> "0.0000"
>>> but sent "1e-10" and then G-code says "unknown operator begining 
>>> with
>>> e")
>>>
>>> Is that fix too clever? The parameters being substituted can only
>>> ever
>>> be hal pin values.
>>> The only numeric type in G-code is float.
>>> So simply changing float() to the %f formatting method is probably 
>>> a
>>> universal fix?
>> It would make sense to have the format sent in the number of digits
>> precision user specified.   I guess that is what you mean by a %f 
>> above
>> (I would have said set the format to output the proper type like 
>> 'char
>> *fmt = "%8.4f";', or better yet build it sprintf(fmt, "\%%d\.%df",
>> length, decimal);)  That would be a configurable universal fix.
>>
>>     EBo --
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