[Python-Dev] floatformat vs float_format

[David Cournapeau]

Hi,

In python 2.6, there have been some effort to make float formatting
more consistent between platforms, which is nice. Unfortunately, there
is still one corner case, for example on windows:

print a -> print 'inf'
print '%f' % a -> print '1.#INF'

The difference being that in the second case, the formatting is done
in floatformat.c (in stringobject.c), whereas in the first case, it is
done in format_float (in floatobject.c). Shouldn't both functions be
calling the same underlying implementation, to avoid those
inconsistencies ?

thanks,

David