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The `"%lld"` and `"%llu"` format specifiers are only available
when :const:`HAVE_LONG_LONG` is defined.
+ .. note::
+ The width formatter unit is number of characters rather than bytes.
+ The precision formatter unit is number of bytes for ``"%s"`` and
+ ``"%V"`` (if the ``PyObject*`` argument is NULL), and a number of
+ characters for ``"%A"``, ``"%U"``, ``"%S"``, ``"%R"`` and ``"%V"``
+ (if the ``PyObject*`` argument is not NULL).
+
.. versionchanged:: 3.2
Support for ``"%lld"`` and ``"%llu"`` added.
.. versionchanged:: 3.3
Support for ``"%li"``, ``"%lli"`` and ``"%zi"`` added.
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.4
+ Support width and precision formatter for ``"%s"``, ``"%A"``, ``"%U"``,
+ ``"%V"``, ``"%S"``, ``"%R"`` added.
+
.. c:function:: PyObject* PyUnicode_FromFormatV(const char *format, va_list vargs)