[issue34311] locale.format() and locale.format_string() cast Decimals to float

[James Emerton]

James Emerton <james at emerton.info> added the comment:

Certainly adding another letter to the format spec would solve my issue and would in fact be somewhat preferable to using local.format directly.

I think this could be fixed in the locale module by transforming the format spec and using new-style formatting, but I'm not familiar enough with the corner cases to know if its practical to cover all the possible cases; particularly those coming from format_string().

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