[issue20314] Potentially confusing formulation in 6.1.4. Template strings

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[issue20314] Potentially confusing formulation in 6.1.4. Template strings

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[issue20314] Potentially confusing formulation in 6.1.4. Template strings

Barry A. Warsaw added the comment: New changeset 9f74deba784fc8781d13ed564f69c02ed7c331bb by Barry Warsaw in branch 'master': Improve the documentation for template strings (#856) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/9f74deba784fc8781d13ed564f69c02ed7c331bb -- ___

[issue20314] Potentially confusing formulation in 6.1.4. Template strings

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[issue20314] Potentially confusing formulation in 6.1.4. Template strings

Georg Brandl added the comment: > I would suggest moving the section "4.7.2. printf-style String > Formatting" from stdtypes to string That's something I wanted to do for a long time. Problem is that non-Intersphinx external links will break (and I guess quite a few people have a bookmark on

[issue20314] Potentially confusing formulation in 6.1.4. Template strings

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Zachary Ware added the comment: I would suggest moving the section "4.7.2. printf-style String Formatting" from stdtypes to string, alongside the other two formatting specifications, or otherwise moving %-formatting and {}-formatting into the same page that is not stdtypes. 4.7.2 is a pretty

[issue20314] Potentially confusing formulation in 6.1.4. Template strings

Barry A. Warsaw added the comment: On Jan 20, 2014, at 05:10 PM, Gerrit Holl wrote: >This is potentially confusing. The documentation in this section has not >made any mention of %-based substitutions. Rather, a novel reader may, at >this point, think that {}-based substitution is normal. I w

[issue20314] Potentially confusing formulation in 6.1.4. Template strings

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[issue20314] Potentially confusing formulation in 6.1.4. Template strings

New submission from Gerrit Holl: The standard library documentation “6.1. string — Common string operations” describes string formatting through the `.format` method and the corresponding mini-language, and the `Template` class. In the part describing the `Template` class (6.1.4) is the text: