Re: [matplotlib-devel] default float format in mlab.rec2csv

[Fernando P. <fpe...@gm...>]

On Dec 15, 2007 2:13 PM, Andrew Straw <str...@as...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> mlab.defaultformatd sets the default float formatter for rec2csv() to be
> something that doesn't keep the full representation of a floating point
> number. Obviously, I can pass in my own formatd argument to rec2csv(),
> but I wonder if there's any reason why defaultformatd shouldn't use
> repr() for numpy.float32 and numpy.float64?

+1 for repr() in general as the default output method, as it is
supposed (though not guaranteed) in general to be more faithful to the
original object.

cheers,

f