From: Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 06:26:39 +0000 (+0300)
Subject: [2.7] bpo-29526: Add reference to help('FORMATTING') in format() builtin (GH-166... 
X-Git-Tag: v2.7.15rc1~206
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6ed7aff8948e50708f048f3f7fd41809259d1777;p=python

[2.7] bpo-29526: Add reference to help('FORMATTING') in format() builtin (GH-166). (#3492)

(cherry picked from commit 2e6bb4484ee1b0da67d1dfcf0816c58602daa5a0)
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diff --git a/Python/bltinmodule.c b/Python/bltinmodule.c
index 70308e9dc9..0f2ee4ad1e 100644
--- a/Python/bltinmodule.c
+++ b/Python/bltinmodule.c
@@ -374,7 +374,9 @@ PyDoc_STRVAR(format_doc,
 "format(value[, format_spec]) -> string\n\
 \n\
 Returns value.__format__(format_spec)\n\
-format_spec defaults to \"\"");
+format_spec defaults to the empty string.\n\
+See the Format Specification Mini-Language section of help('FORMATTING') for\n\
+details.");
 
 static PyObject *
 builtin_chr(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)