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| author | Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> | 2008-05-26 00:54:22 +0000 |
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| committer | Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> | 2008-05-26 00:54:22 +0000 |
| commit | f9ef9881d778fc5a5889ac36d77b204eab4d7b4e (patch) | |
| tree | 112e7bde302cf1b3eb7ff057d201d88e5a67f8b0 /Doc/tutorial/floatingpoint.rst | |
| parent | c15205e93957b3bef18f317a480f8b99213d4870 (diff) | |
| download | cpython-git-f9ef9881d778fc5a5889ac36d77b204eab4d7b4e.tar.gz | |
update the tutorial to use str.format
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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/tutorial/floatingpoint.rst | 5 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/floatingpoint.rst b/Doc/tutorial/floatingpoint.rst index cbf7008ec1..6913c46b79 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/floatingpoint.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/floatingpoint.rst @@ -132,9 +132,8 @@ that every float operation can suffer a new rounding error. While pathological cases do exist, for most casual use of floating-point arithmetic you'll see the result you expect in the end if you simply round the display of your final results to the number of decimal digits you expect. -:func:`str` usually suffices, and for finer control see the discussion of -Python's ``%`` format operator: the ``%g``, ``%f`` and ``%e`` format codes -supply flexible and easy ways to round float results for display. +:func:`str` usually suffices, and for finer control see the :meth:`str.format` +method's format specifiers in :ref:`formatstrings`. .. _tut-fp-error: |