[docs] [issue15952] format(value) and value.__format__() behave differently with unicode format
Chris Jerdonek
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Mon Sep 17 08:26:11 CEST 2012
Chris Jerdonek added the comment:
See this code comment:
/* don't define FORMAT_LONG, FORMAT_FLOAT, and FORMAT_COMPLEX, since
we can live with only the string versions of those. The builtin
format() will convert them to unicode. */
from http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/19601d451d4c/Python/formatter_unicode.c
In other words, it was deliberate not to make value.__format__(format_spec) return unicode when format_spec is unicode. So the docs should be adjusted to say that they are not always the same.
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