Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment:
> Regarding cases 3-7 I'd like to suggest a slightly different resolution: Hmm, yes. I was concentrating on the Decimal results, but I agree that these int/float results are disturbing: >>> format(12345, "<020") '12345000000000000000' >>> format(12345.0, "<020") '12345.00000000000000' >>> format(12345, "^020") '00000001234500000000' I'm fine with an explicit *fill* character of zero producing misleading results; the user just gets what they ask for in that case. (And the filling could be happening in generic code that isn't aware of the numeric context any more, so it could be tricky to change.) But having the pre-width 0 be interpreted this way is questionable. Eric: thoughts? ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue39077> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
