Cheat sheet for the new string formatting?
Mark Lawrence
breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Tue Jun 9 11:42:24 EDT 2015
On 09/06/2015 13:15, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>
> One thing which seems obvious now is that since format() delegates to
> the individual types for formatting, much of the documentation of this
> stuff must now be delegated to the individual types. However, I can't
> find anything about the formatting syntax supported by
> float.__format__. Where might I find it documented that "{:.3}" is
> synonymous with "%.3g"?
>
You won't, at least not that I'm aware of. I think part of the problem
is that there was a lot of confusion as to whether or not the old style
formatting was to be deprecated. See http://bugs.python.org/issue14123
which refers to http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/969817
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