[New-bugs-announce] [issue17705] Fill Character cannot be \0

[Julian Berman]

New submission from Julian Berman:

The docs say:

"The fill character can be any character other than ‘{‘ or ‘}’."

http://docs.python.org/dev/library/string.html#format-specification-mini-language

But:

>>> "{0:\x01>8.2f}".format(12)
'\x01\x01\x0112.00'

whereas:

>>> "{0:\x00>8.2f}".format(12)
'   12.00'

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components: Interpreter Core
messages: 186653
nosy: Julian
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Fill Character cannot be \0
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.2, Python 3.3, Python 3.4

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