On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Stefan Krah <stefan-use...@bytereef.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm in the process of implementing formatting in my C-decimal module. > Since testing is quite time consuming, I would appreciate a binding > decision on how the following should be formatted: > >>>> from decimal import * >>>> format(float(1234), '020,g') > '0,000,000,000,001,234' >>>> format(float(1234), '0=20,g') > '0,000,000,000,001,234' >>>> >>>> format(Decimal(1234), '020,g') > '0,000,000,000,001,234' >>>> format(Decimal(1234), '0=20,g') > '0000000000000001,234'
I like the Decimal behaviour better, but then I might be a little biased. :-) I find it odd that, for float formatting, the choice of fill character affects whether commas are inserted: Python 3.2a0 (py3k:76671, Dec 4 2009, 18:55:54) [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646) (dot 1)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> format(float(1234), '0=20,g') '0,000,000,000,001,234' >>> format(float(1234), '1=20,g') '1111111111111111,234' >>> format(float(1234), 'X=20,g') 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX1,234' Mark _______________________________________________ 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
