[Python-Dev] typo in 8.1.3.1. Format Specification Mini-Language? (original) (raw)

Eric Smith eric at trueblade.com
Thu May 7 21:25:50 CEST 2009


Neal Becker wrote:

"formatspec ::= [[fill]align][sign][#][0][width][.precision][type]" "The precision is ignored for integer values."

In [36]: '%3x' % 10 Out[36]: ' a' In [37]: '%.3x' % 10 Out[37]: '00a' Apparently, precision is not ignored?

That section is talking about this:

format(10, '.3x') Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in ValueError: Precision not allowed in integer format specifier



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