Issue #12644: document the '%a' conversion in the old string formatting operations. Patch prepared together with Ezio Melotti
diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
index f0933a5..e43fc04 100644
--- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
@@ -1464,7 +1464,7 @@
object to convert comes after the minimum field width and optional precision.
#. Precision (optional), given as a ``'.'`` (dot) followed by the precision. If
- specified as ``'*'`` (an asterisk), the actual width is read from the next
+ specified as ``'*'`` (an asterisk), the actual precision is read from the next
element of the tuple in *values*, and the value to convert comes after the
precision.
@@ -1546,9 +1546,12 @@
| ``'r'`` | String (converts any Python object using | \(5) |
| | :func:`repr`). | |
+------------+-----------------------------------------------------+-------+
-| ``'s'`` | String (converts any Python object using | |
+| ``'s'`` | String (converts any Python object using | \(5) |
| | :func:`str`). | |
+------------+-----------------------------------------------------+-------+
+| ``'a'`` | String (converts any Python object using | \(5) |
+| | :func:`ascii`). | |
++------------+-----------------------------------------------------+-------+
| ``'%'`` | No argument is converted, results in a ``'%'`` | |
| | character in the result. | |
+------------+-----------------------------------------------------+-------+
@@ -1581,7 +1584,7 @@
decimal point and defaults to 6.
(5)
- The precision determines the maximal number of characters used.
+ If precision is ``N``, the output is truncated to ``N`` characters.
(7)