Issue #5835, deprecate PyOS_ascii_formatd.
If anyone wants to clean up the documentation, feel free. It's my first documentation foray, and it's not that great.
Will port to py3k with a different strategy.
diff --git a/Objects/stringobject.c b/Objects/stringobject.c
index 89614e6..316a271 100644
--- a/Objects/stringobject.c
+++ b/Objects/stringobject.c
@@ -4332,9 +4332,6 @@
formatfloat(char *buf, size_t buflen, int flags,
int prec, int type, PyObject *v)
{
- /* fmt = '%#.' + `prec` + `type`
- worst case length = 3 + 10 (len of INT_MAX) + 1 = 14 (use 20)*/
- char fmt[20];
double x;
x = PyFloat_AsDouble(v);
if (x == -1.0 && PyErr_Occurred()) {
@@ -4378,10 +4375,8 @@
"formatted float is too long (precision too large?)");
return -1;
}
- PyOS_snprintf(fmt, sizeof(fmt), "%%%s.%d%c",
- (flags&F_ALT) ? "#" : "",
- prec, type);
- PyOS_ascii_formatd(buf, buflen, fmt, x);
+ _PyOS_double_to_string(buf, buflen, x, type, prec,
+ (flags&F_ALT)?Py_DTSF_ALT:0, NULL);
return (int)strlen(buf);
}