[Python-3000] str.format() -- poss. code or doc bug?

[Eric Smith]

Facundo Batista wrote:
> 2007/11/30, Mark Summerfield <mark at qtrac.eu>:
> 
>> BTW I notice that decimal.Decimal() numbers can't be used with the 'e',
>> 'f', or 'g' formats. I know that these numbers aren't floating-point
>> under the hood, but this still seems a bit counter-intuitive to me.
> 
> Adding __format__ to the Decimal data type is on my queue of pendings...

That's great to hear!

And backporting __format__ and friends back to trunk is on my pending 
list.  The fact that upgrading to Leopard broke my compilation 
environment isn't helping me out, unfortunately.