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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2008-05-11 09:06:30 (GMT) |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2008-05-11 09:06:30 (GMT) |
| commit | 53905d8f7fbca1e6291daaa8dedc3e4278d37d4a (patch) | |
| tree | f1300d4dff36019735814c3ccc55b2b2e863ed1e | |
| parent | 25ad76c91d9add168369360cb33953070a4c16a1 (diff) | |
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#1153769: document PEP 237 changes to string formatting.
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst index 52b1c8b..5894957 100644 --- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst +++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst @@ -1185,7 +1185,7 @@ The conversion flag characters are: +---------+---------------------------------------------------------------------+ A length modifier (``h``, ``l``, or ``L``) may be present, but is ignored as it -is not necessary for Python. +is not necessary for Python -- so e.g. ``%ld`` is identical to ``%d``. The conversion types are: @@ -1196,13 +1196,13 @@ The conversion types are: +------------+-----------------------------------------------------+-------+ | ``'i'`` | Signed integer decimal. | | +------------+-----------------------------------------------------+-------+ -| ``'o'`` | Unsigned octal. | \(1) | +| ``'o'`` | Signed octal value. | \(1) | +------------+-----------------------------------------------------+-------+ -| ``'u'`` | Unsigned decimal. | | +| ``'u'`` | Obselete type -- it is identical to ``'d'``. | \(7) | +------------+-----------------------------------------------------+-------+ -| ``'x'`` | Unsigned hexadecimal (lowercase). | \(2) | +| ``'x'`` | Signed hexadecimal (lowercase). | \(2) | +------------+-----------------------------------------------------+-------+ -| ``'X'`` | Unsigned hexadecimal (uppercase). | \(2) | +| ``'X'`` | Signed hexadecimal (uppercase). | \(2) | +------------+-----------------------------------------------------+-------+ | ``'e'`` | Floating point exponential format (lowercase). | \(3) | +------------+-----------------------------------------------------+-------+ @@ -1271,6 +1271,9 @@ Notes: The precision determines the maximal number of characters used. +(7) + See :pep:`237`. + Since Python strings have an explicit length, ``%s`` conversions do not assume that ``'\0'`` is the end of the string. |