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| author | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2014-02-11 23:34:22 (GMT) |
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| committer | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2014-02-11 23:34:22 (GMT) |
| commit | d630e79cc7ac59bd11faa2a4ad4f1d03a2e95c11 (patch) | |
| tree | d16c588be0ce929226ece0e4dc5b09a024397bc2 /Doc/library | |
| parent | 13b493e8a72395bd0b0ee3f72baf68aaa01704ab (diff) | |
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whatsnew: object.__format__ raises TypeError on non-empty string.
See issues #7994 and #9856. I also modified with wording of the format doc
entry to better match what really happens, and added a versionchanged to the
datamodel object.__format__ section.
Diffstat (limited to 'Doc/library')
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/functions.rst | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst index 4371969..57f015b 100644 --- a/Doc/library/functions.rst +++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst @@ -540,12 +540,13 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order. A call to ``format(value, format_spec)`` is translated to ``type(value).__format__(format_spec)`` which bypasses the instance dictionary when searching for the value's :meth:`__format__` method. A - :exc:`TypeError` exception is raised if the method is not found or if either - the *format_spec* or the return value are not strings. + :exc:`TypeError` exception is raised if the method search reaches + :mod:`object` and the *format_spec* is non-empty, or if either the + *format_spec* or the return value are not strings. - .. versionadded:: 3.4 + .. versionchanged:: 3.4 ``object().__format__(format_spec)`` raises :exc:`TypeError` - if *format_spec* is not empty string. + if *format_spec* is not an empty string. .. _func-frozenset: |