[Python-Dev] PEP 3101: floats format 'f' and 'F'

[Eric Smith]

Guido van Rossum wrote:

>> It shares code with %-formatting.  Change that, too?  I couldn't find any
>> occurrences of %F in the stdlib.  Not that that's the entire universe, of
>> course.
>>
>> The change is slightly less elegant if I don't change %-formatting, but
>> still doable, especially if the betas don't get cut today.
> 
> Fine with me to change %F as well -- after all that's where the
> misunderstanding comes from. (More and more I'm beginning to think it
> was my mistake. :-)

I added this as 
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-July/081242.html

I should be able to get it checked in today.

Eric.