Eric V. Smith added the comment: The rule is: - if the entire format specifier is the empty string (not None, but ''), then return str(value) - else, look at the presentation type. if it is missing, set it to something like 'g' - do the normal float formatting using the presentation type
The first of these has an empty string for the format specifier (so uses str(1e10), the rest do not: >>> format(1e10, '') '10000000000.0' >>> format(1e10, ' ') ' 10000000000.0' >>> format(1e10, ' g') ' 1e+10' >>> format(1e10, ' e') ' 1.000000e+10' >>> format(1e10, ' f') ' 10000000000.000000' Now, how much the "something like g" part of the above is true is debatable. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue21195> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
