[Numpy-discussion] formatting issues, locale and co

[David Cournapeau]

Charles R Harris wrote:
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>     I put my yesterday work in the fix_float_format branch:
>      - it fixes the locale issue
>      - it fixes the long double issue on windows.
>      - it also fixes some tests (we were not testing single precision
>     formatting but twice double precision instead - the single precision
>     test fails on the trunk BTW).
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> Curious, I don't see any test failures here. Were the tests actually
> being run or is something else different in your test setup? Or do you
> mean the fixed up test fails.

The later: if you look at numpy/core/tests/test_print, you will see that
the types tested are np.float, np.double and np.longdouble, but at least
on linux, np.float == np.double, and np.float32 is what we want to test
I suppose here instead.

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> Expected, but I would like to see it change because it is kind of
> frustrating. Fixing it probably involves setting a function pointer in
> the type definition but I am not sure about that.

Hm, it took me a while to get this, but print np.float32(value) can be
controlled through tp_print. Still, it does not work in all cases:

print np.float32(a) -> call the tp_print
print '%f' % np.float32(a) -> does not call the tp_print (nor
tp_str/tp_repr). I have no idea what going on there.

> We might also want to do something about integers, as in Python 3.0
> they will all be Python long integers.

I will only care about floating point numbers for now, since they have
problem today in numpy, with currently used python interpreters :)

David