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Author terry.reedy
Recipients docs@python, terry.reedy
Date 2010-05-11.20:21:15
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As reported on python-list by Alan G Isaac,
Lib Ref 6.1.3.1. Format Specification Mini-Language, for instance
http://docs.python.org/dev/py3k/library/string.html#formatstrings

wrongly says in the alignment section

"'<' 	Forces the field to be left-aligned within the available space (This is the default.)"

This latter, of course, is not true for number fields.

"(This is the default.)" could be replaced by "(the string default)."
(in any case, the '.' should be outside the () unless one is added after 'space' before '(') and "(the number default)" added to the next line. Or instead the issue of defaults could be addressed in the text below the table.

I am assuming that this issue affects 2.6/7.
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