[issue3382] Make '%F' and float.__format__('F') convert results to upper case.

[Eric Smith]

New submission from Eric Smith <eric at trueblade.com>:

See http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-July/081242.html
for the discussion.  Basically, 'F' did the same as 'f' because it was
assumed that neither would ever produce an exponent.  But they do, for
numbers greater than about 1e50.  Also, 'F' should produce 'NAN' for
cases where 'f' produces 'nan'.

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assignee: eric.smith
components: Interpreter Core
keywords: easy
messages: 69811
nosy: eric.smith
severity: normal
status: open
title: Make '%F' and float.__format__('F') convert results to upper case.
type: feature request
versions: Python 2.6, Python 3.0

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