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

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Thu May 7 23:51:10 CEST 2009


Eric Smith wrote:

Eric Smith wrote:

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 So I guess it shouldn't say "is ignored", it should be "is not allowed".

My exact suggestion in http://bugs.python.org/issue5963



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