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

[John H. <jd...@gm...>]

On Dec 15, 2007 3:13 PM, Andrew Straw <str...@as...> wrote:
> 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?

I'll be happy to make repr the default.  I was using %g because I
mistakenly though this provided the appropriate number of significant
digits.  I changed this to %r in the csvformat_factory in  svn.

JDJ