[New-bugs-announce] [issue10379] locale.format() input regression

[Barry A. Warsaw]

New submission from Barry A. Warsaw <barry at python.org>:

@mission[~:1001]% python2.7 -c "import locale; print locale.format('%.0f KB', 100)"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/locale.py", line 189, in format
    "format specifier, %s not valid") % repr(percent))
ValueError: format() must be given exactly one %char format specifier, '%.0f KB' not valid
@mission[~:1002]% python2.6 -c "import locale; print locale.format('%.0f KB', 100)"
100 KB

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messages: 120905
nosy: barry
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: locale.format() input regression
versions: Python 2.7

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