[Numpy-discussion] Number of digits

[David Douard]

On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 08:46:33AM -0500, Robert Kern wrote:
> Tim Hochberg wrote:
> > Nils Wagner wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> how can I increase the number of digits in the output of str(.) ?
> >>   
> > You can't as far as I know. For floats, you can use "%.nf". For example:
> > 
> > "%.13f" % 493.4802200544680
> 
> The problem is is that he doesn't have a float. He has one of our float64scalar 
> objects. The str() of a real Python float will give as many digits as are 
> necessary to recreate number and no more (or maybe one or two more). A str() of 
> a float64scalar will round according to some rule that I haven't figured out, 
> yet. It doesn't seem to be configurable with numpy.set_printoptions().

This is a different ptoblem from the one exposed by Nils. I mean, tha
fact that str() on numpy.float64 objects is somewhat obscure is a
problem that should obviously be addressed some day. However, as far as
I understand Nils' message, the "%.13f" trick is enough for what he
need. But I may be wrong... He just want to "increase the number of
digits", not have the "optimal" number of digits (as long as this is
meaningfull).

But I may have missed something.

David

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