diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst index 284c04c5ec9..6a925699435 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst @@ -315,7 +315,20 @@ Some smaller changes made to the core Python language are: >>> short.untransform('zlib_codec') b'which witch had which witches wrist watch' - (From multiple contributers in :issue:`7475`.) + (From multiple contributors in :issue:`7475`.) + +* String formatting for :func:`format` and :meth:`str.format` gained a new format + character **#**. For integers in binary, octal, or hexadecimal, it causes + the output to be prefixed with '0b', '0o', or '0x' respectively. For floats, + complex, and Decimal, it causes the output to always have a decimal point + even when no digits follow it. + + >>> format(20, '#o') + '0o24' + >>> format(12.34, '#5.0f') + ' 12.' + + (Suggested by Mark Dickinson and implemented by Eric Smith in :issue:`7094`.) * The interpreter can now be started with a quiet option, ``-q``, to suppress the copyright and version information in an interactive mode.