[issue1588] str.format() wrongly formats complex() numbers (Py30a2)

[Guido van Rossum]

Guido van Rossum added the comment:

This really is a feature request -- in Python 2.x there is no formatting
code for complex numbers at all, and "%.5s" % complex(...) does the same
thing.

I agree it would be neat to have control over complex numbers using the
same formatting language used for floats; but I note that it's easy
enough to do this manually, e.g.

>>> "{0.real:.5}+{0.imag:.5}j".format(z)
'1+0.66667j'

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nosy: +gvanrossum
priority:  -> low

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