Issue #7094: Add alternate ('#') flag to __format__ methods for float, complex and Decimal. Allows greater control over when decimal points appear. Added to make transitioning from %-formatting easier. '#g' still has a problem with Decimal which I'll fix soon.
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
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--- a/Misc/ACKS
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@@ -318,6 +318,7 @@
Hans de Graaff
Eddy De Greef
Duncan Grisby
+Eric Groo
Dag Gruneau
Michael Guravage
Lars Gustäbel
@@ -457,6 +458,7 @@
Pat Knight
Greg Kochanski
Damon Kohler
+Vlad Korolev
Joseph Koshy
Maksim Kozyarchuk
Stefan Krah
@@ -536,6 +538,7 @@
Doug Marien
Alex Martelli
Anthony Martin
+Owen Martin
Sébastien Martini
Roger Masse
Nick Mathewson
@@ -733,6 +736,7 @@
Andreas Schawo
Neil Schemenauer
David Scherer
+Bob Schmertz
Gregor Schmid
Ralf Schmitt
Michael Schneider
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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- Issue #10027. st_nlink was not being set on Windows calls to os.stat or
os.lstat. Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
+- Issue #7094: Added alternate formatting (specified by '#') to
+ __format__ method of float, complex, and Decimal. This allows more
+ precise control over when decimal points are displayed.
+
- Issue #10474: range().count() should return integers.
- Issue #10255: Fix reference leak in Py_InitializeEx(). Patch by Neil