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| author | Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> | 2012-08-17 19:42:12 (GMT) |
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| committer | Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> | 2012-08-17 19:42:12 (GMT) |
| commit | bbfe573d9d5fbae478199ccff07c39f5b2de499d (patch) | |
| tree | 61d51dc2768995e9230d65ddbd090ca4a79d854f /Doc/library | |
| parent | 1b79918641e1db92a30367a7bef7be77fe6a2de2 (diff) | |
| parent | f6190c146347c088d1927e95fa5cb3cfbea6f423 (diff) | |
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Merge with 3.2 #15660
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diff --git a/Doc/library/string.rst b/Doc/library/string.rst index fc0bd24..aed191b 100644 --- a/Doc/library/string.rst +++ b/Doc/library/string.rst @@ -368,9 +368,9 @@ instead. *width* is a decimal integer defining the minimum field width. If not specified, then the field width will be determined by the content. -If the *width* field is preceded by a zero (``'0'``) character, this enables -zero-padding. This is equivalent to an *alignment* type of ``'='`` and a *fill* -character of ``'0'``. +Preceding the *width* field by a zero (``'0'``) character enables +sign-aware zero-padding for numeric types. This is equivalent to a *fill* +character of ``'0'`` with an *alignment* type of ``'='``. The *precision* is a decimal number indicating how many digits should be displayed after the decimal point for a floating point value formatted with |