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  r70430 | mark.dickinson | 2009-03-17 18:01:03 +0000 (Tue, 17 Mar 2009) | 3 lines

  Fix bug in Decimal __format__ method that swapped left and right
  alignment.
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_decimal.py b/Lib/test/test_decimal.py
index 114cd5b..92b029e 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_decimal.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_decimal.py
@@ -704,6 +704,12 @@
             ('.0g', '-sNaN', '-sNaN'),
 
             ('', '1.00', '1.00'),
+
+            # check alignment
+            ('<6', '123', '123   '),
+            ('>6', '123', '   123'),
+            ('^6', '123', ' 123  '),
+            ('=+6', '123', '+  123'),
             ]
         for fmt, d, result in test_values:
             self.assertEqual(format(Decimal(d), fmt), result)