Remove restriction on precision when formatting floats. This is the
first step towards removing the %f -> %g switch (see issues 7117,
5859).
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 356e3a1..58b7057 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@
Core and Builtins
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+- Remove restrictions on precision when formatting floats. E.g.,
+ "%.120g" % 1e-100 used to raise OverflowError, but now gives the
+ requested 120 significant digits instead.
+
- Add Py3k warnings for parameter names in parenthesis.
- Issue #7362: Give a proper error message for def f((x)=3): pass.