On 5/11/2010 3:19 PM, MRAB wrote:
Alan G Isaac wrote:
The documentation at
http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/string.html#format-specification-mini-language
'<' Forces the field to be left-aligned within the available space
(This is the default.)
The conflicting example::
>>> format(3.2,'10.5f')
' 3.20000'
>>> format(3.2,'<10.5f')
'3.20000 '
Am I somehow misreading the documentation?
It does look misleading. Numbers default to right-aligned, as you
discovered.
You usually want numbers to be right-aligned so that the decimal points
line up when writing a columns of them.
http://bugs.python.org/issue8691
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