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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2010-09-06 06:49:07 (GMT) |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2010-09-06 06:49:07 (GMT) |
| commit | c86adb4c5c616e6aa7dcf9e59c71ba66ab5ea553 (patch) | |
| tree | 77fe9ec5d88e239b08170a1e47c4f6d27c71f41e | |
| parent | 9e75cad23473cb5562ffbb05ac3fa23714b8663b (diff) | |
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#9780: both { and } are not valid fill characters.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/string.rst b/Doc/library/string.rst index cabb6f3..f926924 100644 --- a/Doc/library/string.rst +++ b/Doc/library/string.rst @@ -299,11 +299,11 @@ The general form of a *standard format specifier* is: precision: `integer` type: "b" | "c" | "d" | "e" | "E" | "f" | "F" | "g" | "G" | "n" | "o" | "s" | "x" | "X" | "%" -The *fill* character can be any character other than '}' (which signifies the -end of the field). The presence of a fill character is signaled by the *next* -character, which must be one of the alignment options. If the second character -of *format_spec* is not a valid alignment option, then it is assumed that both -the fill character and the alignment option are absent. +The *fill* character can be any character other than '{' or '}'. The presence +of a fill character is signaled by the character following it, which must be +one of the alignment options. If the second character of *format_spec* is not +a valid alignment option, then it is assumed that both the fill character and +the alignment option are absent. The meaning of the various alignment options is as follows: |