On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 7:35 AM, Eric Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know why 'F' is the same as 'f'? Wouldn't it make more sense to > either drop it, or make it convert the exponent to upper case (like 'E' and > 'G')? Compatibility with %-formatting is the only reason I can think of to > keep up, but I get the sense we've given up on an automatic conversion from > %-formatting to str.format(). Plus, I can find no uses of '%F' in the > standard library.
My best guess as to why 'F' is the same as 'f' is that somebody (could've been me :-) thought, like several others in this thread, that %f never prints an exponent. I agree that making it emit an 'E' when an exponent is used is the right thing to do. Do it now! -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
