[New-bugs-announce] [issue7873] Remove precision restriction for integer formatting.

[Mark Dickinson]

New submission from Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com>:

Currently, in trunk:

>>> '%0.116x' % 1
'00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001'
>>> '%0.117x' % 1
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>

This is intentional, and presumably due to use of a fixed-length buffer somewhere in the formatting internals.  It would be nice (and probably not very hard) to remove this precision restriction.

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assignee: mark.dickinson
components: Interpreter Core
keywords: easy
messages: 98998
nosy: eric.smith, mark.dickinson
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Remove precision restriction for integer formatting.
type: feature request
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.2

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