[issue13433] String format documentation contains error regarding %g
Mark Dickinson
report at bugs.python.org
Sat Nov 19 14:26:24 CET 2011
Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com> added the comment:
Yep, there's an oddity here that's directly inherited from C's sprintf family of functions, namely that in %e-style formatting you give the number of digits after the point (= one less than the total number of significant digits), and in %g-style formatting you give the total number of significant digits instead.
Can you give a pointer, or link, to the documentation section you were looking at?
The description at:
http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#string-formatting-operations
looks fine to me. Note 3, which relates to the '%e' and '%f'-style formatting, talks about number of places after the point. Note 4, which relates to '%g' formatting, talks about the total number of significant digits.
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