commit 92fcc9c9919b41a611b1dc084ad8f414f1e4278d
author Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com> Wed Apr 29 20:41:00 2009 +0000
committer Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com> Wed Apr 29 20:41:00 2009 +0000
tree b13d3ca4bad7c446d6b26c8efaffefca3e51eedd
parent 867475c970417edc25f800c4b2aeb8a3108b62db

Issue #5864: format(1234.5, '.4') gives misleading result
(Backport of r72109 from py3k.)

Misc/NEWS

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 3cd5094..35846ea 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@
 Core and Builtins
 -----------------
 
+- Issue #5864: Fix empty format code formatting for floats so that it
+  never gives more than the requested number of significant digits.
+
 - Issue #5793: Rationalize isdigit / isalpha / tolower, etc. Includes
   new Py_ISDIGIT / Py_ISALPHA / Py_TOLOWER, etc. in pctypes.h.