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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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 Library
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+- Fix Decimal.__format__ bug that swapped the meanings of the '<' and
+  '>' alignment characters.
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 - Issue #1222: locale.format() bug when the thousands separator is a space
   character.