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authorAlexandre Vassalotti <alexandre@peadrop.com>2009-07-29 20:12:15 (GMT)
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@@ -152,9 +152,9 @@ Positional and keyword arguments can be arbitrarily combined::
other='Georg'))
The story of Bill, Manfred, and Georg.
-An optional ``':'`` and format specifier can follow the field name. This also
+An optional ``':'`` and format specifier can follow the field name. This allows
greater control over how the value is formatted. The following example
-truncates the Pi to three places after the decimal.
+truncates Pi to three places after the decimal.
>>> import math
>>> print('The value of PI is approximately {0:.3f}.'.format(math.pi))
@@ -208,8 +208,8 @@ operation. For example::
The value of PI is approximately 3.142.
Since :meth:`str.format` is quite new, a lot of Python code still uses the ``%``
-operator. However, because this old style of formatting will eventually removed
-from the language :meth:`str.format` should generally be used.
+operator. However, because this old style of formatting will eventually be
+removed from the language, :meth:`str.format` should generally be used.
More information can be found in the :ref:`old-string-formatting` section.