[issue40971] Documentation still mentions 'u' string formatting option

Petr Viktorin added the comment: I'm closing the issue. Please comment or reopen if I missed something. -- resolution: -> not a bug stage: needs patch -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue40971] Documentation still mentions 'u' string formatting option

Petr Viktorin added the comment: AFAICS, Python 3 suports '%u' for printf-style formatting: Python 3.8.3 (default, May 29 2020, 00:00:00) [GCC 10.1.1 20200507 (Red Hat 10.1.1-1)] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> '%u' % 6 '6' What am I

[issue40971] Documentation still mentions 'u' string formatting option

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[issue40971] Documentation still mentions 'u' string formatting option

Change by Benjamin Peterson : -- keywords: +easy stage: -> needs patch ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list

[issue40971] Documentation still mentions 'u' string formatting option

New submission from Gordon P. Hemsley : https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#old-string-formatting still lists the 'u' string formatting option, described as "Obsolete type – it is identical to 'd'." and linking to PEP 237. However, testing indicates that Python 3 does not support