From 916895f93905f8b8dad677cceff501833f5a633a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Terry Jan Reedy Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 14:59:16 -0500 Subject: bpo-13790: Change 'string' to 'specification' in format doc (GH-18690) --- Doc/library/string.rst | 4 ++-- .../next/Documentation/2020-02-28-14-39-25.bpo-13790.hvLaRI.rst | 1 + 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-02-28-14-39-25.bpo-13790.hvLaRI.rst diff --git a/Doc/library/string.rst b/Doc/library/string.rst index 89c169a..fa906f7 100644 --- a/Doc/library/string.rst +++ b/Doc/library/string.rst @@ -302,9 +302,9 @@ specification is to be interpreted. Most built-in types implement the following options for format specifications, although some of the formatting options are only supported by the numeric types. -A general convention is that an empty format string (``""``) produces +A general convention is that an empty format specification produces the same result as if you had called :func:`str` on the value. A -non-empty format string typically modifies the result. +non-empty format specification typically modifies the result. The general form of a *standard format specifier* is: diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-02-28-14-39-25.bpo-13790.hvLaRI.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-02-28-14-39-25.bpo-13790.hvLaRI.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..77db173 --- /dev/null +++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-02-28-14-39-25.bpo-13790.hvLaRI.rst @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Change 'string' to 'specification' in format doc. -- cgit v0.12