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Author	Julian
Recipients	Julian
Date	2013-04-12.16:54:54
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Message-id	<1365785695.21.0.22745237494.issue17705@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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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'

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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