On Apr 26, 7:56 pm, Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Apr 26, 6:47 am, Keith <keith.braff...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > From that document it appears that my decimal.Decimal(1234567) example > > shows that the module has a bug: > > > Doc says: > > [0,123,3] ===> "123E+3" > > > But Python does:>>> import decimal > > >>> decimal.Decimal(123000).to_eng_string() > > > '123000' > > That's not a bug. The triple [0,123,3] is Decimal('123e3'), which is > not the same thing as Decimal('123000'). The former has an exponent > of 3 (in the language of the specification), while the latter has an > exponent of 0. > > >>> decimal.Decimal('123e3').to_eng_string() > > '123E+3' > > -- > Mark
Thanks, Mark, you're right. It's clear that Decimal.to_eng_string() doesn't solve the problem that I am trying to solve, which is: take the Python "float" type, and print it in engineering format. --Keith Brafford -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list