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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2009-02-23 10:24:23 (GMT) |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2009-02-23 10:24:23 (GMT) |
| commit | 528f8810aa495d2efc50af7ceb28d2c7092ea92e (patch) | |
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#5348: format() converts all kinds of values.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst index 3789e20..0232e1b 100644 --- a/Doc/library/functions.rst +++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst @@ -425,6 +425,26 @@ available. They are listed here in alphabetical order. The float type is described in :ref:`typesnumeric`. + +.. function:: format(value[, format_spec]) + + .. index:: + pair: str; format + single: __format__ + + Convert a *value* to a "formatted" representation, as controlled by + *format_spec*. The interpretation of *format_spec* will depend on the type + of the *value* argument, however there is a standard formatting syntax that + is used by most built-in types: :ref:`formatspec`. + + .. note:: + + ``format(value, format_spec)`` merely calls + ``value.__format__(format_spec)``. + + .. versionadded:: 2.6 + + .. function:: frozenset([iterable]) :noindex: |