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  r74704 | mark.dickinson | 2009-09-07 17:17:41 +0100 (Mon, 07 Sep 2009) | 3 lines

  Issue #6850: Fix bug in Decimal._parse_format_specifier for formats
  with no type specifier.
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2 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/decimal.py b/Lib/decimal.py
index 8d82cb9..e3af3f0 100644
--- a/Lib/decimal.py
+++ b/Lib/decimal.py
@@ -5592,7 +5592,7 @@ def _parse_format_specifier(format_spec, _localeconv=None):
     # if format type is 'g' or 'G' then a precision of 0 makes little
     # sense; convert it to 1.  Same if format type is unspecified.
     if format_dict['precision'] == 0:
-        if format_dict['type'] in 'gG' or format_dict['type'] is None:
+        if format_dict['type'] is None or format_dict['type'] in 'gG':
             format_dict['precision'] = 1
 
     # determine thousands separator, grouping, and decimal separator, and
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_decimal.py b/Lib/test/test_decimal.py
index 927fd1a..f0c4431 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_decimal.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_decimal.py
@@ -749,6 +749,9 @@ class DecimalFormatTest(unittest.TestCase):
             (',%', '123.456789', '12,345.6789%'),
             (',e', '123456', '1.23456e+5'),
             (',E', '123456', '1.23456E+5'),
+
+            # issue 6850
+            ('a=-7.0', '0.12345', 'aaaa0.1'),
             ]
         for fmt, d, result in test_values:
             self.assertEqual(format(Decimal(d), fmt), result)