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Author mark.dickinson
Recipients Francis.Nimick, alexd2, docs@python, eric.smith, mark.dickinson, r.david.murray, terry.reedy
Date 2013-12-14.08:39:27
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> From what I read in the thread it seems to be more like a bug rather than
> something to just be documented, right?

No, both round and formatting are working as expected: it's just a bit unfortunate that they use different rounding modes in 2.x.  It's not something that it would make sense to change in 2.7 at this stage---any such change would likely break a lot of code.
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