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authorMartin Panter <vadmium+py@gmail.com>2016-02-08 01:34:09 (GMT)
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Issue #25179: Preparatory cleanup of existing docs on string formatting
* Various sections were pointing to the section on the string.Formatter class, when the section on the common format string syntax is probably more appropriate * Fix references to various format() functions and methods * Nested replacement fields may contain conversions and format specifiers, and this is tested; see Issue #19729 for instance
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@@ -352,9 +352,8 @@ The built-in function :func:`len` returns the length of a string::
Strings support a large number of methods for
basic transformations and searching.
- :ref:`string-formatting`
- Information about string formatting with :meth:`str.format` is described
- here.
+ :ref:`formatstrings`
+ Information about string formatting with :meth:`str.format`.
:ref:`old-string-formatting`
The old formatting operations invoked when strings and Unicode strings are