Incorporate suggested change.

stefmolin · tacaswell · web-flow · commit 7329d6a61bbe · 2022-08-31T20:39:46.000-04:00
Co-authored-by: Thomas A Caswell &lt;tcaswell@gmail.com&gt;
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/cbook/__init__.py b/lib/matplotlib/cbook/__init__.py
@@ -2336,11 +2336,6 @@ def _auto_format_str(fmt, value):
     '0 or {}'
     """
     try:
-        lbl = fmt % value
-        # when used in `Axes.bar_label()`` this doesn't always raise an error
-        # when the {}-style formatting should be used instead of %-style
-        if lbl == fmt:
-            raise TypeError
-        return lbl
+        return fmt % (value,)
     except (TypeError, ValueError):
         return fmt.format(value)
