BatteryCharge & Battery do not handle negative CURRENT_NOW values

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I have i3pystatus on my laptop, and when I unplug the power cable, the {consumption} wattage shows 0.00 Watts. When I plug in the power cable, I get some number of Watts appearing.

This is happening because

• the CURRENT_NOW in my uevent is negative
• BatteryCharge.consumption then multiplies this with the voltage & passes a negative value to
• Battery.consumption, which returns 0 if the value is less than 0.1

I have another utility that calculates watt consumption, and when I'm on battery it returns a negative watt value and when I'm on power it returns the positive value (very close to the value reported by i3pystatus). My electricity knowledge is almost nil, but I think the values mean

• watts being drawn from the battery when negative
• watts being put into the battery when positive

in which case having the negative value available in the status bar would be useful and good.

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Closing b/c my fix was merged a long time ago! 😅