On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Eric Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guido van Rossum wrote: >> >> 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! >> > > It shares code with %-formatting. Change that, too? I couldn't find any > occurrences of %F in the stdlib. Not that that's the entire universe, of > course. > > The change is slightly less elegant if I don't change %-formatting, but > still doable, especially if the betas don't get cut today.
Fine with me to change %F as well -- after all that's where the misunderstanding comes from. (More and more I'm beginning to think it was my mistake. :-) -- --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
