Greg Ewing wrote:
>> Neal Norwitz <neal@metaslash.com>:
>> > The intent was to convert an int/long to a double in the case of
> > '%g' et al and from a double to an int in the case of '%d'.
>> Are you sure the latter part of that is a good idea? As a general
> principle, I don't think float->int conversions should be done
> automatically. What is the Python philosophy on that?
This is consistent with versions back to 1.5.2:
Python 1.5.2 (#1, Jul 5 2001, 03:02:19) [GCC 2.96 20000731
(Red Hat Linux 7.1 2 on linux-i386
Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
>>> '%d' % 1.8
'1'
Neal
