[Georg Brandl]
> ...
> Reviewing the printf man page, this is okay since for %f, the precision is the
> number of digits after the decimal point while for %g, it is the number of
> significant digits. Still, that should be documented in the Python manual.
Well, there are a lot of little details in C's formats. Filling in
the gaps people happen to notice is one way to proceed; another is to
point to external docs for C's rules, like
http://www-ccs.ucsd.edu/c/lib_prin.html#Print%20Functions
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