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diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst b/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst index b1bc522b18..bfbc9a62fd 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst @@ -148,9 +148,9 @@ Positional and keyword arguments can be arbitrarily combined:: ... other='Georg') The story of Bill, Manfred, and Georg. -An optional ``':'`` and format specifier can follow the field name. This also +An optional ``':'`` and format specifier can follow the field name. This allows greater control over how the value is formatted. The following example -truncates the Pi to three places after the decimal. +truncates Pi to three places after the decimal. >>> import math >>> print 'The value of PI is approximately {0:.3f}.'.format(math.pi) @@ -204,8 +204,8 @@ operation. For example:: The value of PI is approximately 3.142. Since :meth:`str.format` is quite new, a lot of Python code still uses the ``%`` -operator. However, because this old style of formatting will eventually removed -from the language :meth:`str.format` should generally be used. +operator. However, because this old style of formatting will eventually be +removed from the language, :meth:`str.format` should generally be used. More information can be found in the :ref:`string-formatting` section. |