[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-414940 ] locale.format broken in 2.1b2

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Bugs item #414940, was updated on 2001-04-09 09:35
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>Category: Python Library
Group: None
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Walter Dörwald (doerwalter)
>Assigned to: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Summary: locale.format broken in 2.1b2

Initial Comment:
locale.format seems
to be broken in 2.1b2:

>>> import locale
>>> locale.format("%+.02f", -42., 1) 
'-+42.00'


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>Comment By: Guido van Rossum (gvanrossum)
Date: 2001-04-10 12:15

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Yup, it's broken.  A simpler example is: locale.format("%+f", -42.).

Assigned to Martin, who is probably the author.  The code is incomprehensible to me (after 1 minute of trying :-).

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