[issue6198] test_float fails on Windows

[Eric Smith]

Eric Smith <eric at trueblade.com> added the comment:

> [Mark]
>> Out of interest, what does '%#.0f' % 1.5 produce on
>> Python 2.7/Windows?  I'd expect to get '2.' both for
>> round-half-to-even and round-half-away-from-zero.
>> Does Windows round this down to '1.' instead?
> 
> [Eric]
>> Windows in trunk gives '2.'.
> 
[Mark]
> Thanks.  I was mainly wondering why you'd commented out the
> line "%#.0f 1.5 -> 2." in the formatfloat_testcases.txt
> file.

Over-zealous commenting out on my part. I'm away from my Windows box,
but I'll correct this next week and check it back in with that line
re-enabled.

Thanks for catching that.

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resolution: fixed -> 
status: closed -> open

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