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authorSenthil Kumaran <senthil@uthcode.com>2016-04-12 23:15:44 -0700
committerSenthil Kumaran <senthil@uthcode.com>2016-04-12 23:15:44 -0700
commit6fce35354a7fecb9130fd163f86822c468d1413e (patch)
tree3c206e5324ef621382372c14bcb1f4f8d85794d9 /Lib/locale.py
parentIssue #25496: Merge tarfile doc from 3.5 (diff)
parent[minor] - Correct the docstring of locale.str. Patch by poleto. (diff)
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[minor] - Correct the docstring of locale.str. Patch by poleto.
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diff --git a/Lib/locale.py b/Lib/locale.py
index 074f6e02faf..206cdb3cc59 100644
--- a/Lib/locale.py
+++ b/Lib/locale.py
@@ -1,13 +1,12 @@
-""" Locale support.
+"""Locale support module.
- The module provides low-level access to the C lib's locale APIs
- and adds high level number formatting APIs as well as a locale
- aliasing engine to complement these.
+The module provides low-level access to the C lib's locale APIs and adds high
+level number formatting APIs as well as a locale aliasing engine to complement
+these.
- The aliasing engine includes support for many commonly used locale
- names and maps them to values suitable for passing to the C lib's
- setlocale() function. It also includes default encodings for all
- supported locale names.
+The aliasing engine includes support for many commonly used locale names and
+maps them to values suitable for passing to the C lib's setlocale() function. It
+also includes default encodings for all supported locale names.
"""
@@ -298,7 +297,7 @@ def currency(val, symbol=True, grouping=False, international=False):
return s.replace('<', '').replace('>', '')
def str(val):
- """Convert float to integer, taking the locale into account."""
+ """Convert float to string, taking the locale into account."""
return format("%.12g", val)
def delocalize(string):