commit 2e9f202f627ac453f42e8b5df53388f6bf3806f7
author Eric Smith <eric@trueblade.com> Thu Feb 25 14:58:13 2010 +0000
committer Eric Smith <eric@trueblade.com> Thu Feb 25 14:58:13 2010 +0000
tree 768766ca642fad743ff17c89d5226e8fbe925165
parent 05c0774f335aa50d1cf12bd929c223171cae85e8

Merged revisions 78444 via svnmerge from
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  r78444 | eric.smith | 2010-02-25 09:26:33 -0500 (Thu, 25 Feb 2010) | 1 line

  Issue #7928: Document str.format element_index better.
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Doc/library/string.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/string.rst b/Doc/library/string.rst
index 0de7ff7..ea4b5da 100644
--- a/Doc/library/string.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/string.rst
@@ -199,7 +199,8 @@
       field_name: arg_name ("." `attribute_name` | "[" `element_index` "]")*
       arg_name: (`identifier` | `integer`)?
       attribute_name: `identifier`
-      element_index: `integer`
+      element_index: `integer` | `index_string`
+      index_string: <any source character except "]"> +
       conversion: "r" | "s" | "a"
       format_spec: <described in the next section>