[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r64424 - in python/trunk:Include/object.h Lib/test/test_sys.py Misc/NEWSObjects/intobject.c Objects/longobject.c Objects/typeobject.cPython/bltinmodule.c

Fri Jun 27 00:00:13 CEST 2008

Mark Dickinson schrieb:
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:28 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
>> Remind me what %a does?
> 
> From the C99 standard (section 7.19.6.1):
> 
> A double argument representing a ﬂoating-point number is converted in the
> style [−]0xh.hhhhp±d, [...]

Let me remind you that %a currently means "call ascii()" in 3.0.

Georg