commit a30f349ecf57d7280bf179d6446f8fe5a3dede4f
author Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com> Sun Mar 29 15:06:29 2009 +0000
committer Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com> Sun Mar 29 15:06:29 2009 +0000
tree e8d203467074f28cb866662a0f92a20cedc30704
parent 94cc409a113635d3df5023eed2c347ec479248d9

Merged revisions 70678 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

........
  r70678 | mark.dickinson | 2009-03-29 15:37:51 +0100 (Sun, 29 Mar 2009) | 3 lines

  Issue #532631: Replace confusing fabs(x)/1e25 >= 1e25 test
  with fabs(x) >= 1e50, and fix documentation.
........

Objects/stringlib/formatter.h

diff --git a/Objects/stringlib/formatter.h b/Objects/stringlib/formatter.h
index 2e3e5a6..86235a6 100644
--- a/Objects/stringlib/formatter.h
+++ b/Objects/stringlib/formatter.h
@@ -789,7 +789,7 @@
 
     if (precision < 0)
         precision = 6;
-    if (type == 'f' && (fabs(x) / 1e25) >= 1e25)
+    if (type == 'f' && fabs(x) >= 1e50)
         type = 'g';
 
     /* cast "type", because if we're in unicode we need to pass a