New submission from Jeff McNeil jeff@jmcneil.net:

I was going through the string formatting examples this evening and noticed this:

print '%(language)s has %(#)03d quote types.' % \ {'language': "Python", "#": 2}

The example uses a '#' as a map key. This is somewhat misleading as if we had simply left the parenthesis off, the '#' would have been interpreted as an alternate conversion flag. Should be updated to use a more verbose (and less confusing) dictionary key.

---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation files: stdtypes.rst.2.6.5.patch keywords: patch messages: 104410 nosy: docs@python, mcjeff priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Confusing string formatting examples versions: Python 2.6 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file17115/stdtypes.rst.2.6.5.patch

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