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authorEric Smith <eric@trueblade.com>2009-11-29 17:40:57 (GMT)
committerEric Smith <eric@trueblade.com>2009-11-29 17:40:57 (GMT)
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Issue #3382: Make '%F' and float.__format__('F') convert results to upper case. Much of the patch came from Mark Dickinson.
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@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 1
Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #3382: 'F' formatting for float and complex now convert the
+ result to upper case. This only affects 'inf' and 'nan', since 'f'
+ no longer converts to 'g' for large values.
+
- Remove switch from "%f" formatting to "%g" formatting for floats
larger than 1e50 in absolute value.