From: Raymond Hettinger Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:08:13 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Issue #11304: Input/output tutorial - PI is rounded not truncated. X-Git-Tag: v3.3.0a1~3099 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c38f025a55b56a7ddbec22479925ccef955507af;p=python Issue #11304: Input/output tutorial - PI is rounded not truncated. --- diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst b/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst index 04665f8801..d94bfe07dd 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst @@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ Positional and keyword arguments can be arbitrarily combined:: An optional ``':'`` and format specifier can follow the field name. This allows greater control over how the value is formatted. The following example -truncates Pi to three places after the decimal. +rounds Pi to three places after the decimal. >>> import math >>> print('The value of PI is approximately {0:.3f}.'.format(math.pi))