simple string format question

[Piet van Oostrum]

Adrien <adnothing at gmail.com> writes:

> print "{:.3g}".format(2.356)  # this rounds up

But:

>>> print "{:.3g}".format(12.356) 
12.4
>>> print "{:.3g}".format(123.356) 
123

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