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r80521 | r.david.murray | 2010-04-26 22:45:53 -0400 (Mon, 26 Apr 2010) | 13 lines
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r80512 | r.david.murray | 2010-04-26 17:17:14 -0400 (Mon, 26 Apr 2010) | 7 lines
Issue #6656: fix locale.format_string to handle escaped percents and mappings.
Refactors format_string. Includes tests for the two problems noted in
the issue, but as far as I can see there are no other tests that confirm
that format_string conforms to normal % formatting rules.
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Library
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+- Issue #6656: fix locale.format_string to handle escaped percents
+ and mappings.
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- Issue #1100562: Fix deep-copying of objects derived from the list and
dict types. Patch by Michele Orrù and Björn Lindqvist.