From 14a9189255ca2e108a5bbbe6a92027c0f5273f80 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel <63580393+danrgll@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2023 11:55:40 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] add logging info for parameter that uses e notation to inform
 them that the parameter gets deduced as float

---
 neps/search_spaces/yaml_search_space_utils.py | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/neps/search_spaces/yaml_search_space_utils.py b/neps/search_spaces/yaml_search_space_utils.py
index e0efe616..d8063519 100644
--- a/neps/search_spaces/yaml_search_space_utils.py
+++ b/neps/search_spaces/yaml_search_space_utils.py
@@ -1,10 +1,13 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
+import logging
 import re
 
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
 
 def convert_scientific_notation(value: str | int | float, show_usage_flag=False) \
-                                -> float | (float, bool):
+        -> float | (float, bool):
     """
     Convert a given value to a float if it's a string that matches scientific e notation.
     This is especially useful for numbers like "3.3e-5" which YAML parsers may not
@@ -156,6 +159,10 @@ def deduce_param_type(name: str, details: dict[str, int | str | float]) -> str:
 
             # check if one value is e notation and if so convert it to float
             if flag_lower or flag_upper:
+                logger.info(
+                    f"Because of e notation, Parameter {name} gets "
+                    f"interpreted as float"
+                )
                 param_type = "float"
             else:
                 raise TypeError(