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r63655 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-05-25 19:54:22 -0500 (Sun, 25 May 2008) | 2 lines
update the tutorial to use str.format
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diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/floatingpoint.rst b/Doc/tutorial/floatingpoint.rst
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--- a/Doc/tutorial/floatingpoint.rst
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@@ -132,9 +132,8 @@
While pathological cases do exist, for most casual use of floating-point
arithmetic you'll see the result you expect in the end if you simply round the
display of your final results to the number of decimal digits you expect.
-:func:`str` usually suffices, and for finer control see the discussion of
-Python's ``%`` format operator: the ``%g``, ``%f`` and ``%e`` format codes
-supply flexible and easy ways to round float results for display.
+:func:`str` usually suffices, and for finer control see the :meth:`str.format`
+method's format specifiers in :ref:`formatstrings`.
If you are a heavy user of floating point operations you should take a look
at the Numerical Python package and many other packages for mathematical and