[issue6198] test_float fails on Windows

[Mark Dickinson]

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

[Mark]
> 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?

[Eric]
> Windows in trunk gives '2.'.

Thanks.  I was mainly wondering why you'd commented out the
line "%#.0f 1.5 -> 2." in the formatfloat_testcases.txt
file.

[Eric, about zero formatting on Windows]
> So this isn't a problem we caused with the short repr work, it's 
> pre-existing. I don't think it's worth working around, but that's me.

I agree it doesn't seem worth working around.  Let's wait until
somebody complains. :-)

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