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diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst b/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst index 662407a..549a922 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst @@ -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. |