Cheat sheet for the new string formatting?

[Mark Lawrence]

On 09/06/2015 13:15, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>
> One thing which seems obvious now is that since format() delegates to
> the individual types for formatting, much of the documentation of this
> stuff must now be delegated to the individual types. However, I can't
> find anything about the formatting syntax supported by
> float.__format__.  Where might I find it documented that "{:.3}" is
> synonymous with "%.3g"?
>

You won't, at least not that I'm aware of.  I think part of the problem 
is that there was a lot of confusion as to whether or not the old style 
formatting was to be deprecated.  See http://bugs.python.org/issue14123 
which refers to http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/969817

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