[docs] String formatting: "%#17.5l%" % ()

[Edward Welbourne]

Hi doc folks,

I was checking on the format-specifier grammar:
http://whorl/doc/python-doc/html/library/stdtypes.html#string-formatting
and noticed that it allows flag, field width, precision and length
modifier in a %% format specifier.  I was about to report this as a bug
(as I expected the same rule ANSI C '89 imposed - for the % specifier,
the whole format specifier must be just %%, with no extras) but checked
in a python session:

>>> '%#17.5l%'
'%#17.5l%'
>>> '%#17.5l% %s' % 'hello'
'                % hello'
>>> '%#17.5l%' % ()
'                %'
>>> '%#*.*l%' % (17, 5)
'                %'

I am duly amused.
It occurred to me that others might be, too ;-)

        Eddy.