10 Apr
2014
10 Apr
'14
7:18 a.m.
Eric V. Smith added the comment: An empty format specifier can (and to my knowledge, does) match str(). So you get:
format(1e10, '') '10000000000.0' format(1e10, 'g') '1e+10' str(1e10) '10000000000.0'
The SO question is asking about an empty "presentation type", which is indeed similar to 'g' for floats.
I think this is all the same in 2.7 and 3.4, with the exception of how str() might operate on floats.
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