From: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2018 18:16:02 +0000 (-0400) Subject: bpo-34432: doc Mention complex and decimal.Decimal on str.format not about locales... X-Git-Tag: v3.6.7rc1~99 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fbd0a14cc941e340df0979d94ac55191dd31ad00;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git bpo-34432: doc Mention complex and decimal.Decimal on str.format not about locales (GH-8808) (GH-8810) (cherry picked from commit 93b5655c040a33f9ba4cdbd303afc8398c8413c7) Co-authored-by: Andrés Delfino --- diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst index e23324fe697e..0a86031efd33 100644 --- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst +++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst @@ -1606,13 +1606,14 @@ expression support in the :mod:`re` module). that can be specified in format strings. .. note:: - When formatting a number (:class:`int`, :class:`float`, :class:`float` - and subclasses) with the ``n`` type (ex: ``'{:n}'.format(1234)``), the - function sets temporarily the ``LC_CTYPE`` locale to the ``LC_NUMERIC`` - locale to decode ``decimal_point`` and ``thousands_sep`` fields of - :c:func:`localeconv` if they are non-ASCII or longer than 1 byte, and the - ``LC_NUMERIC`` locale is different than the ``LC_CTYPE`` locale. This - temporary change affects other threads. + When formatting a number (:class:`int`, :class:`float`, :class:`complex`, + :class:`decimal.Decimal` and subclasses) with the ``n`` type + (ex: ``'{:n}'.format(1234)``), the function temporarily sets the + ``LC_CTYPE`` locale to the ``LC_NUMERIC`` locale to decode + ``decimal_point`` and ``thousands_sep`` fields of :c:func:`localeconv` if + they are non-ASCII or longer than 1 byte, and the ``LC_NUMERIC`` locale is + different than the ``LC_CTYPE`` locale. This temporary change affects + other threads. .. versionchanged:: 3.6.5 When formatting a number with the ``n`` type, the function sets