[issue35831] Format Spec example says limited to 3.1+ but works in 2.7

Fred L. Drake, Jr. added the comment: The 3.X docs generally don't refer to the 2.X series. What that comment is pointing out is that leaving the field identifier out (the number inside the {...} placeholder syntax) was not in the 3.0, but added in 3.1. Unfortunately, I don't have a 3.0 int

[issue35831] Format Spec example says limited to 3.1+ but works in 2.7

Change by Mitchell L Model : -- assignee: -> docs@python components: +Documentation nosy: +docs@python ___ Python tracker ___ ___ P

[issue35831] Format Spec example says limited to 3.1+ but works in 2.7

New submission from Mitchell L Model : https://docs.python.org/3/library/string.html#format-examples includes this line: '{}, {}, {}'.format('a', 'b', 'c') # 3.1+ only This does in fact work in 2.7. I don't see anything special about this -- seems an entirely straightforward format. --