Bug in format specification in Python 3?

[AggieDan04]

On Aug 11, 3:28 pm, Robert Dailey <rcdai... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> According to the Python 3.1 documentation, I can have a format
> specification like so:
>
> print( 'This is a hex number: {:#08x}'.format( 4 ) )
>
> This will print:
>
> This is a hex number: 0x000004
>
> I notice that the '0x' portion is counted in the width, which was
> specified as 8. This seems wrong to me. Is this by design? If so, why?
> I expect that the width portion to only apply to the input + padding
> only. I don't consider the '0x' portion part of the padding. But maybe
> it is...

It's unintuitive to me, too, but it's the same thing that Python 2.x
did:

>>> print '%#08x' % 4
0x000004