Engineering numerical format PEP discussion

[Keith]

On Apr 26, 12:02 am, Chris Rebert <c... at rebertia.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Keith <keith.braff... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am considering writing a PEP for the inclusion of an engineering
> > format specifier, and would appreciate input from others.
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> Relevant related information:
> The Decimal datatype supports engineering format directly:http://docs.python.org/library/decimal.html#decimal.Decimal.to_eng_st...
>
> Cheers,
> Chris

Thanks for pointing that out.  Does the engineering community get by
with the decimal module?

Even though this uses the to_eng_string() function, and even though I
am using the decimal.Context class:

>>> c = decimal.Context(prec=5)
>>> decimal.Decimal(1234567).to_eng_string(c)
'1234567'

That is not an engineering notation string.

--Keith Brafford