Floating point -> string conversions

[John Fouhy]

I have another related question...

>>> pow(2, 31)
2147483648L
>>> '%d' % 2147483647.0              # python will convert to int
'2147483647'
>>> '%d' % 2147483648.0              # too big for an int, so error.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
TypeError: int argument required
>>> '%d' % long(2147483648.0)        # but yet, no trouble accepting a long.
'2147483648'
>>> '%d' % int(2147483648.0)         # and int() converts to long anyway
'2147483648'

Is this a bug? 

(python 2.3.4)

-- 
John.