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Author	cdavid
Recipients	cdavid
Date	2009-01-01.07:52:43
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Message-id	<1230796367.25.0.681154044554.issue4799@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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On windows, with python 2.6, s = '%s' % float('inf') is 'inf', but s = '%f' % float('inf') is equal to '1.#INF'. This patch fixes the inconsistency, by using the code from floatobject.f format_float into stringobject.c formatfloat. I think it would be better to use the same underlying implementations for both functions, but it is not so easy, because format_float cannot fail (return void), whereas formatfloat can (return error code).

On windows, with python 2.6,  s = '%s' % float('inf') is 'inf', but s =
'%f' % float('inf') is equal to '1.#INF'.

This patch fixes the inconsistency, by using the code from floatobject.f
format_float into stringobject.c formatfloat. I think it would be better
to use the same underlying implementations for both functions, but it is
not so easy, because format_float cannot fail (return void), whereas
formatfloat can (return error code).

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Date	User	Action	Args
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