[issue6198] test_float fails on Windows

[Mark Dickinson]

Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com> added the comment:

Thanks, Eric.  All those changes look good to me.

Out of interest, what does '%#.0f' % 1.5 produce on
Python 2.7/Windows?  I'd expect to get '2.' both for
round-half-to-even and round-half-away-from-zero.
Does Windows round this down to '1.' instead?

I'm surprised by the %#.ng results for 0;  this looks
like questionable behaviour (producing n+1 digits when
only n significant digits were requested).  Is the MS
implementation of printf directly responsible for this,
or is the CPython code somehow adding the extra 0?
If this is just the way that Windows behaves for formatting
of zeros, then I suppose we could add code to work around
this, but it's not clear that it's really worth it.

I suspect that we're in for some complaints when
Windows users discover that Python 3.1 string formatting
does round-half-to-even rather than the round-half-up
they're used to in Python 2.x.

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