Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com added the comment:
IMO, the behaviour is fine; it's the docs that are unclear. The rules for
Decimal are different mainly because trailing zeros have meaning for the
Decimal type. (Decimal('1.250') and Decimal('1.25') are two distinct Decimal
objects,
Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com added the comment:
Ah no, I take it back. I think (2) is fine---this is the usual preservation of
trailing zeros where possible. (1) needs to be fixed (and issue #7094 was left
open waiting for this fix).
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superseder: - Add alternate float formatting styles to new-style formatting.
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New submission from py.user port...@yandex.ru:
http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/string.html#format-specification-mini-language
The '#' option:
For floats, complex and Decimal the alternate form causes the result of the
conversion to always contain a decimal-point character, even if no
Eric V. Smith e...@trueblade.com added the comment:
See issue #7098 for a discussion.
I propose to close this issue.
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py.user port...@yandex.ru added the comment:
my question is about the # option
it is described as working with Decimal but it doesn't work with Decimal
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