[issue5348] Documentation of format implies only strings and numbers are acceptable arguments

2009-02-23 Thread Eric Smith
Eric Smith e...@trueblade.com added the comment: I looked and don't see where this error is. In fact, I don't see format() mentioned at all on the 2.6.1 page for builtin functions (http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html), which is a problem. What page are you looking at?

[issue5348] Documentation of format implies only strings and numbers are acceptable arguments

2009-02-23 Thread Georg Brandl
Georg Brandl ge...@python.org added the comment: Fixed in r69895, r69896. (Added format() to the 2.x builtins doc in the latter.) -- resolution: - fixed status: open - closed ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue5348

[issue5348] Documentation of format implies only strings and numbers are acceptable arguments

2009-02-23 Thread Mitchell Model
Mitchell Model m...@acm.org added the comment: Sorry -- I was too quick to include 2.6 and 2.7 in the bug tracker entry. I usually check 3 vs 2.6 but since format is in 2.6 I didn't check the 2.6 doc page to discover, as you did, that it wasn't documented. -- -- --- Mitchell

[issue5348] Documentation of format implies only strings and numbers are acceptable arguments

2009-02-22 Thread Mitchell Model
New submission from Mitchell Model m...@acm.org: The documentation of format on the builtin functions page should be changed from Convert a string or a number to Convert a value. The documentation begins Convert a string or a number. This is misleading in that format can be called on any

[issue5348] Documentation of format implies only strings and numbers are acceptable arguments

2009-02-22 Thread Benjamin Peterson
Changes by Benjamin Peterson benja...@python.org: -- nosy: +eric.smith ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue5348 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list