[issue5348] Documentation of format implies only strings and numbers are acceptable arguments
Eric Smith e...@trueblade.com added the comment: I looked and don't see where this error is. In fact, I don't see format() mentioned at all on the 2.6.1 page for builtin functions (http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html), which is a problem. What page are you looking at? ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue5348 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue5348] Documentation of format implies only strings and numbers are acceptable arguments
Georg Brandl ge...@python.org added the comment: Fixed in r69895, r69896. (Added format() to the 2.x builtins doc in the latter.) -- resolution: - fixed status: open - closed ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue5348 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue5348] Documentation of format implies only strings and numbers are acceptable arguments
Mitchell Model m...@acm.org added the comment:
Sorry -- I was too quick to include 2.6 and 2.7 in the bug tracker
entry. I usually check 3 vs 2.6 but since format is in 2.6 I didn't
check the 2.6 doc page to discover, as you did, that it wasn't
documented.
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[issue5348] Documentation of format implies only strings and numbers are acceptable arguments
New submission from Mitchell Model m...@acm.org: The documentation of format on the builtin functions page should be changed from Convert a string or a number to Convert a value. The documentation begins Convert a string or a number. This is misleading in that format can be called on any value, since there is an Object.__format__ and classes can define their own __format__ method. PEP 3101 is explicit about all of this and the documentation of __format__ ends by noting that format(value, format_spec) merely calls value.__format__(format_spec). typeobject.c implements Object.__format__ with a note about PEP 3101. Given all of that I don't see why format should be explained as taking a string or a number as its first argument. -- assignee: georg.brandl components: Documentation messages: 82616 nosy: MLModel, georg.brandl severity: normal status: open title: Documentation of format implies only strings and numbers are acceptable arguments versions: Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.0, Python 3.1 ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue5348 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue5348] Documentation of format implies only strings and numbers are acceptable arguments
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