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Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 20:04:19 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: bpo-13790: Change 'string' to 'specification' in format doc (GH-18690)
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bpo-13790: Change 'string' to 'specification' in format doc (GH-18690)

(cherry picked from commit 916895f93905f8b8dad677cceff501833f5a633a)

Co-authored-by: Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
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diff --git a/Doc/library/string.rst b/Doc/library/string.rst
index 6cbe54963196..ed8c912364c4 100644
--- a/Doc/library/string.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/string.rst
@@ -303,9 +303,9 @@ specification is to be interpreted.
 Most built-in types implement the following options for format specifications,
 although some of the formatting options are only supported by the numeric types.
 
-A general convention is that an empty format string (``""``) produces
+A general convention is that an empty format specification produces
 the same result as if you had called :func:`str` on the value. A
-non-empty format string typically modifies the result.
+non-empty format specification typically modifies the result.
 
 The general form of a *standard format specifier* is:
 
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-02-28-14-39-25.bpo-13790.hvLaRI.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-02-28-14-39-25.bpo-13790.hvLaRI.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..77db173168fc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-02-28-14-39-25.bpo-13790.hvLaRI.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Change 'string' to 'specification' in format doc.