According to the docs, %g formatting is "Same as "e" if exponent is greater than -4 or less than precision, "f" otherwise." So I would expect that for any num, '%g'%num == '%e'%num or '%g'%num == '%f'%num. But this is not the case in fact:
Python 2.4.3 (#69, Mar 29 2006, 17:35:34) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. In [1]: num = 1234567898.2345678945 In [2]: print "%g\n%e\n%f" % (num,num,num) 1.23457e+009 1.234568e+009 1234567898.234568 In [3]: num = 1234.456789 In [4]: print "%g\n%e\n%f" % (num,num,num) 1234.46 1.234457e+003 1234.456789 So I'm wondering if the docs are wrong or the implementation is wrong or there's something I don't understand? Thanks, Kent -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
