[issue20811] str.format for fixed width float can return a string longer than the maximum specified

[Eric V. Smith]

Eric V. Smith added the comment:

I think you always want the leading zero. Mark (Dickinson), what do yo think?

And I also think changing it at this point would be problematic.

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nosy: +anthonybaxter, barry, benjamin.peterson, eric.araujo, georg.brandl, gvanrossum, lemburg, loewis, tarek

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