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| author | Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> | 2020-02-28 14:59:16 -0500 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2020-02-28 14:59:16 -0500 |
| commit | 916895f93905f8b8dad677cceff501833f5a633a (patch) | |
| tree | b4deb6a48aa5e1ea0f7bdb8668d1cc3056bae0df | |
| parent | c705fd1e89ccb8f6d414ec817b4616546147d877 (diff) | |
| download | cpython-git-916895f93905f8b8dad677cceff501833f5a633a.tar.gz | |
bpo-13790: Change 'string' to 'specification' in format doc (GH-18690)
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/string.rst | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-02-28-14-39-25.bpo-13790.hvLaRI.rst | 1 |
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/string.rst b/Doc/library/string.rst index 89c169a512..fa906f799c 100644 --- a/Doc/library/string.rst +++ b/Doc/library/string.rst @@ -302,9 +302,9 @@ specification is to be interpreted. Most built-in types implement the following options for format specifications, although some of the formatting options are only supported by the numeric types. -A general convention is that an empty format string (``""``) produces +A general convention is that an empty format specification produces the same result as if you had called :func:`str` on the value. A -non-empty format string typically modifies the result. +non-empty format specification typically modifies the result. The general form of a *standard format specifier* is: diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-02-28-14-39-25.bpo-13790.hvLaRI.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-02-28-14-39-25.bpo-13790.hvLaRI.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..77db173168 --- /dev/null +++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-02-28-14-39-25.bpo-13790.hvLaRI.rst @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Change 'string' to 'specification' in format doc. |