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| author | Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com> | 2009-05-01 11:42:00 (GMT) |
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| committer | Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com> | 2009-05-01 11:42:00 (GMT) |
| commit | f489caf5daa2b0f3a1bd951b585c834aab1a54c6 (patch) | |
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Issue #5859: Remove use of fixed-length buffers for float formatting
in unicodeobject.c and the fallback version of PyOS_double_to_string.
As a result, operations like '%.120e' % 12.34 no longer raise an
exception.
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@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ What's New in Python 3.1 beta 1? Core and Builtins ----------------- +- Issue #5859: Remove length restrictions for float formatting: + '%.67f' % 12.34 and '%.120e' % 12.34 no longer raise an exception. + - Issue #1588: Add complex.__format__. For example, format(complex(1, 2./3), '.5') now produces a sensible result. |