[issue39096] Description of "Format Specification Mini-Language" not accurate for Decimal

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[issue39096] Description of "Format Specification Mini-Language" not accurate for Decimal

Michael Amrhein added the comment: For a discussion of the different behaviour of float and Decimal see https://bugs.python.org/issue39077. -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue39096] Description of "Format Specification Mini-Language" not accurate for Decimal

New submission from Michael Amrhein : The description of the "Format Specification Mini-Language" states for float and Decimal regarding presentation type 'f': "The default precision is 6." Regarding presentation type None it reads: "Similar to 'g', except that fixed-point notation, when used,