From 1e2f050a7952823a0cacbf32e2e9ccfc0a50b470 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benjamin Peterson Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 12:52:02 +0000 Subject: Merged revisions 63397,63673 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r63397 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-05-16 17:59:28 -0500 (Fri, 16 May 2008) | 2 lines mention Py3k in glossary ........ r63673 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-05-26 07:29:46 -0500 (Mon, 26 May 2008) | 2 lines some updates to string formatting section in whatsnew ........ --- Doc/glossary.rst | 5 +++-- Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst | 11 +++++++---- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/glossary.rst b/Doc/glossary.rst index 77e586f..cd8b7ac 100644 --- a/Doc/glossary.rst +++ b/Doc/glossary.rst @@ -371,8 +371,9 @@ Glossary :term:`argument`. Python 3000 - Nickname for the Python 3.x release line (coined long ago when the - release of version 3 was something in the distant future.) + Nickname for the Python 3.x release line (coined long ago when the release + of version 3 was something in the distant future.) This is also + abbreviated "Py3k". Pythonic An idea or piece of code which closely follows the most common idioms of diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst index 31ea41d..3fd892a 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst @@ -526,9 +526,9 @@ environment variable. PEP 3101: Advanced String Formatting ===================================================== -In Python 3.0, the `%` operator is supplemented by a more powerful -string formatting method, :meth:`format`. Support for the -:meth:`format` method has been backported to Python 2.6. +In Python 3.0, the `%` operator is supplemented by a more powerful string +formatting method, :meth:`format`. Support for the :meth:`str.format` method +has been backported to Python 2.6. In 2.6, both 8-bit and Unicode strings have a `.format()` method that treats the string as a template and takes the arguments to be formatted. @@ -650,8 +650,11 @@ the type's :meth:`__format__` method with the provided specifier:: .. seealso:: + :ref:`formatstrings` + The reference format fields. + :pep:`3101` - Advanced String Formatting - PEP written by Talin. + PEP written by Talin. Implemented by Eric Smith. .. ====================================================================== -- cgit v0.12