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Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/decimal.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/decimal.py | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/decimal.py b/Lib/decimal.py index e3fa8cb..33f5391 100644 --- a/Lib/decimal.py +++ b/Lib/decimal.py @@ -5577,7 +5577,10 @@ def _parse_format_specifier(format_spec, _localeconv=None): raise ValueError("Alignment conflicts with '0' in " "format specifier: " + format_spec) format_dict['fill'] = fill or ' ' - format_dict['align'] = align or '<' + # PEP 3101 originally specified that the default alignment should + # be left; it was later agreed that right-aligned makes more sense + # for numeric types. See http://bugs.python.org/issue6857. + format_dict['align'] = align or '>' # default sign handling: '-' for negative, '' for positive if format_dict['sign'] is None: |