[Matplotlib-users] tick format support for ``format``

[Alan G I. <ai...@am...>]

Am I overlooking tick format support for ``format``?
http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#format

If not, might it be added?

Ordinarily I'd use FormatStrFormatter, but this time
I wanted percentages, so I had to (?) use FuncFormatter.
This was both surprising (because ``format`` is core
Python functionality) and confusing (because the docs
did not point out that the user-provided function must
take two arguments).

Thanks,
Alan Isaac