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Author pushpendre rastogi
Recipients pushpendre rastogi
Date 2015-03-10.14:26:26
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Hi, The string formatting module in python 2.7 incorrectly formats floating point values. The following code shows the problem

>>> print "%.10s"%(-7.7176718e-05)
-7.7176718
>> print "%.10s"%(-0.0000771767)
-7.71767e-

Ideally the code should have thrown an exception (first preference)
or it should have printed  -0.0000771767 (second preference) or -7.7176718e-05 (third preference)
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