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Author mark
Recipients gvanrossum, mark
Date 2007-12-12.07:42:44
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In-reply-to <1197395801.26.0.835562491899.issue1588@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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On 2007-12-11, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Guido van Rossum added the comment:
>
> This really is a feature request -- in Python 2.x there is no formatting
> code for complex numbers at all, and "%.5s" % complex(...) does the same
> thing.

I thought Python 3 was meant to be an _improvement_:-)

> I agree it would be neat to have control over complex numbers using the
> same formatting language used for floats; but I note that it's easy
> enough to do this manually, e.g.
>
> >>> "{0.real:.5}+{0.imag:.5}j".format(z)
>
> '1+0.66667j'

Good point, I'll use that.

Thanks!
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