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@@ -697,6 +697,25 @@ def test_issue5864(self):
         self.assertEqual(format(1234.56, '.4'), '1.235e+03')
         self.assertEqual(format(12345.6, '.4'), '1.235e+04')
 
+    def test_issue35560(self):
+        self.assertEqual(format(123.0, '00'), '123.0')
+        self.assertEqual(format(123.34, '00f'), '123.340000')
+        self.assertEqual(format(123.34, '00e'), '1.233400e+02')
+        self.assertEqual(format(123.34, '00g'), '123.34')
+        self.assertEqual(format(123.34, '00.10f'), '123.3400000000')
+        self.assertEqual(format(123.34, '00.10e'), '1.2334000000e+02')
+        self.assertEqual(format(123.34, '00.10g'), '123.34')
+        self.assertEqual(format(123.34, '01f'), '123.340000')
+
+        self.assertEqual(format(-123.0, '00'), '-123.0')
+        self.assertEqual(format(-123.34, '00f'), '-123.340000')
+        self.assertEqual(format(-123.34, '00e'), '-1.233400e+02')
+        self.assertEqual(format(-123.34, '00g'), '-123.34')
+        self.assertEqual(format(-123.34, '00.10f'), '-123.3400000000')
+        self.assertEqual(format(-123.34, '00.10f'), '-123.3400000000')
+        self.assertEqual(format(-123.34, '00.10e'), '-1.2334000000e+02')
+        self.assertEqual(format(-123.34, '00.10g'), '-123.34')
+
 class ReprTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
     def test_repr(self):
         floats_file = open(os.path.join(os.path.split(__file__)[0],
 
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Fix an assertion error in :func:`format` in debug build for floating point
+formatting with "n" format, zero padding and small width. Release build is
+not impacted. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.
@@ -9473,6 +9473,7 @@ _PyUnicode_InsertThousandsGrouping(
     PyObject *thousands_sep,
     Py_UCS4 *maxchar)
 {
+    min_width = Py_MAX(0, min_width);
     if (writer) {
         assert(digits != NULL);
         assert(maxchar == NULL);
@@ -9483,7 +9484,6 @@ _PyUnicode_InsertThousandsGrouping(
     }
     assert(0 <= d_pos);
     assert(0 <= n_digits);
-    assert(0 <= min_width);
     assert(grouping != NULL);
 
     if (digits != NULL) {