bpo-34273: Change 'Fixed point' to 'Fixed-point notation'. (GH-8673)

* bpo-34273: Change 'Fixed point' to 'Fixed-point notation'.
The change in the mini language floating point and decimal table
is consistent with 'Exponential notation' and clarifies that we
are referring to the output notation, not an object type.

* Update string.rst

* Update string.rst

* Update string.rst

* Update string.rst
(cherry picked from commit 28c7f8c8ce34a0cb848822a252a9d0a761fb42d5)

Co-authored-by: Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>

diff --git a/Doc/library/string.rst b/Doc/library/string.rst
index f4c4b8c8683f4a628496228446f7d3129d52b50a..a87d285e0d2798c0fb9687504a4044e5f0c6fe63 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/string.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/string.rst
@@ -464,11 +464,11 @@ The available presentation types for floating point and decimal values are:
    | ``'E'`` | Exponent notation. Same as ``'e'`` except it uses an     |
    |         | upper case 'E' as the separator character.               |
    +---------+----------------------------------------------------------+
-   | ``'f'`` | Fixed point. Displays the number as a fixed-point        |
-   |         | number.  The default precision is ``6``.                 |
+   | ``'f'`` | Fixed-point notation. Displays the number as a           |
+   |         | fixed-point number.  The default precision is ``6``.     |
    +---------+----------------------------------------------------------+
-   | ``'F'`` | Fixed point. Same as ``'f'``, but converts ``nan`` to    |
-   |         | ``NAN`` and ``inf`` to ``INF``.                          |
+   | ``'F'`` | Fixed-point notation. Same as ``'f'``, but converts      |
+   |         | ``nan`` to  ``NAN`` and ``inf`` to ``INF``.              |
    +---------+----------------------------------------------------------+
    | ``'g'`` | General format.  For a given precision ``p >= 1``,       |
    |         | this rounds the number to ``p`` significant digits and   |