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r74723 | mark.dickinson | 2009-09-08 21:20:19 +0100 (Tue, 08 Sep 2009) | 3 lines
Issue #6857: Fix Decimal formatting to be consistent with existing float
formatting: both are now right-aligned by default.
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diff --git a/Lib/decimal.py b/Lib/decimal.py
index e3fa8cb..33f5391 100644
--- a/Lib/decimal.py
+++ b/Lib/decimal.py
@@ -5577,7 +5577,10 @@
raise ValueError("Alignment conflicts with '0' in "
"format specifier: " + format_spec)
format_dict['fill'] = fill or ' '
- format_dict['align'] = align or '<'
+ # PEP 3101 originally specified that the default alignment should
+ # be left; it was later agreed that right-aligned makes more sense
+ # for numeric types. See http://bugs.python.org/issue6857.
+ format_dict['align'] = align or '>'
# default sign handling: '-' for negative, '' for positive
if format_dict['sign'] is None: