From 6ed7aff8948e50708f048f3f7fd41809259d1777 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 09:26:39 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] [2.7] bpo-29526: Add reference to help('FORMATTING') in
 format() builtin (GH-166). (#3492)

(cherry picked from commit 2e6bb4484ee1b0da67d1dfcf0816c58602daa5a0)
---
 Python/bltinmodule.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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)
-- 
2.50.1