[Python-Dev] %x formatting of floats - behaviour change since 3.4

[Glenn Linderman]

On 6/3/2014 3:05 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 8:03 AM, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2014-06-03 23:38 GMT+02:00 Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com>:
>>> Is this an intentional change? And if so, is it formally documented
>>> somewhere? I don't recall seeing anything about it, but my
>>> recollection doesn't mean much.
>> Yes, it's intentional. See the issue for the rationale:
>> http://bugs.python.org/issue19995
> Thanks! I'll fix (in this case, simply remove) the test and cite that issue.

Wouldn't it be better to keep the test, but expect the operation to fail?
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