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authorTerry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>2020-02-28 19:59:16 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2020-02-28 19:59:16 (GMT)
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bpo-13790: Change 'string' to 'specification' in format doc (GH-18690)
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@@ -302,9 +302,9 @@ specification is to be interpreted.
Most built-in types implement the following options for format specifications,
although some of the formatting options are only supported by the numeric types.
-A general convention is that an empty format string (``""``) produces
+A general convention is that an empty format specification produces
the same result as if you had called :func:`str` on the value. A
-non-empty format string typically modifies the result.
+non-empty format specification typically modifies the result.
The general form of a *standard format specifier* is: