[issue6813] update format() documentation and tutorial

Eric Smith added the comment: Never mind, I see that you didn't add the !a docs to trunk. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-li

[issue6813] update format() documentation and tutorial

Eric Smith added the comment: 2.7 does not support the !a conversion specifier. It's only available in 3.1 and above. It's because ascii() is a 3.x only builtin. -- nosy: +eric.smith ___ Python tracker ___

[issue6813] update format() documentation and tutorial

Georg Brandl added the comment: Thanks, committed as r74614 (trunk), r74615 (3k). -- resolution: -> accepted status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue6813] update format() documentation and tutorial

New submission from Daniel Black : Release notes show the use of '{}'.format('this') and the attached patch updates this to be the default example in the tutorial. Library references are updated to show field_name as optional and a few examples are added. Relates to the improvements from issue 5