[New-bugs-announce] [issue40971] Documentation still mentions 'u' string formatting option

[Gordon P. Hemsley]

New submission from Gordon P. Hemsley <gphemsley at gphemsley.org>:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#old-string-formatting still lists the 'u' string formatting option, described as "Obsolete type – it is identical to 'd'." and linking to PEP 237.

However, testing indicates that Python 3 does not support a 'u' option and my archaeology suggests that such support was removed in Python 2.4. It seems this has flown under the radar for quite some time.

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assignee: docs at python
components: Documentation
messages: 371474
nosy: alexandre.vassalotti, benjamin.peterson, berker.peksag, christian.heimes, docs at python, eli.bendersky, ezio.melotti, georg.brandl, gphemsley, martin.panter, ncoghlan, rhettinger
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Documentation still mentions 'u' string formatting option
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.10, Python 3.5, Python 3.6, Python 3.7, Python 3.8, Python 3.9

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