[2.7] bpo-34273: Change 'Fixed point' to 'Fixed-point notation'. (GH-8673)
The change in the mini language floating point and decimal table
is consistent with 'Exponential notation' and clarifies that we
are referring to the output notation, not an object type.
(cherry picked from commit 28c7f8c8ce34a0cb848822a252a9d0a761fb42d5)
diff --git a/Doc/library/string.rst b/Doc/library/string.rst
index 2293b02..f8d41f9 100644
--- a/Doc/library/string.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/string.rst
@@ -464,10 +464,10 @@
| ``'E'`` | Exponent notation. Same as ``'e'`` except it uses an |
| | upper case 'E' as the separator character. |
+---------+----------------------------------------------------------+
- | ``'f'`` | Fixed point. Displays the number as a fixed-point |
- | | number. The default precision is ``6``. |
+ | ``'f'`` | Fixed-point notation. Displays the number as a |
+ | | fixed-point number. The default precision is ``6``. |
+---------+----------------------------------------------------------+
- | ``'F'`` | Fixed point. Same as ``'f'``. |
+ | ``'F'`` | Fixed point notation. Same as ``'f'``. |
+---------+----------------------------------------------------------+
| ``'g'`` | General format. For a given precision ``p >= 1``, |
| | this rounds the number to ``p`` significant digits and |