[issue20811] str.format for fixed width float can return a string longer than the maximum specified

[Mark Dickinson]

Mark Dickinson added the comment:

> I think you always want the leading zero. Mark (Dickinson), what do yo think?

Agreed that we want to keep the leading zero for normal uses.  I wouldn't object to some way to opt out of the leading zero, but I'm not sure what that way (w/c)ould be.

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