diff --git a/PKG-INFO b/PKG-INFO
index e78ce8a..3e76b67 100644
--- a/PKG-INFO
+++ b/PKG-INFO
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 Metadata-Version: 1.0
 Name: texttable
-Version: 1.0.0
+Version: 1.1.0
 Summary: module for creating simple ASCII tables
 Home-page: https://github.com/foutaise/texttable/
 Author: Gerome Fournier
 Author-email: jef@foutaise.org
 License: LGPL
-Download-URL: https://github.com/foutaise/texttable/archive/v1.0.0.tar.gz
+Download-URL: https://github.com/foutaise/texttable/archive/v1.1.0.tar.gz
 Description: texttable is a module to generate a formatted text table, using ASCII
         characters.
 Platform: any
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c7d195f..91bf3bb 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Python module for creating simple ASCII tables
 
 ## Availability
 
-This module is available on [PypI](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/texttable/1.0.0), and has been packaged for several Linux/Unix platforms
+This module is available on [PypI](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/texttable/1.1.0), and has been packaged for several Linux/Unix platforms
 ([Debian](https://packages.debian.org/search?&searchon=names&keywords=python-texttable+),
 [FreeBSD](https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=texttable&stype=all), Fedora, Suse...).
 
@@ -197,10 +197,10 @@ DATA
     __author__ = 'Gerome Fournier <jef(at)foutaise.org>'
     __credits__ = 'Jeff Kowalczyk:\n    - textwrap improved import\n ...at...
     __license__ = 'LGPL'
-    __version__ = '1.0.0'
+    __version__ = '1.1.0'
 
 VERSION
-    1.0.0
+    1.1.0
 
 AUTHOR
     Gerome Fournier <jef(at)foutaise.org>
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index b529a4a..90ba529 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -33,11 +33,11 @@
 
 setup(
     name = "texttable",
-    version = "1.0.0",
+    version = "1.1.0",
     author = "Gerome Fournier",
     author_email = "jef@foutaise.org",
     url = "https://github.com/foutaise/texttable/",
-    download_url = "https://github.com/foutaise/texttable/archive/v1.0.0.tar.gz",
+    download_url = "https://github.com/foutaise/texttable/archive/v1.1.0.tar.gz",
     license = "LGPL",
     py_modules = ["texttable"],
     description = DESCRIPTION,
diff --git a/texttable.py b/texttable.py
index ea5180e..5d08863 100644
--- a/texttable.py
+++ b/texttable.py
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@
 
 __author__ = 'Gerome Fournier <jef(at)foutaise.org>'
 __license__ = 'LGPL'
-__version__ = '1.0.0'
+__version__ = '1.1.0'
 __credits__ = """\
 Jeff Kowalczyk:
     - textwrap improved import
@@ -277,8 +277,8 @@ def set_cols_valign(self, array):
     def set_cols_dtype(self, array):
         """Set the desired columns datatype for the cols.
 
-        - the elements of the array should be either a callable or any of "a",
-          "t", "f", "e" or "i":
+        - the elements of the array should be either a callable or any of
+          "a", "t", "f", "e", "i" or a callable:
 
             * "a": automatic (try to use the most appropriate datatype)
             * "t": treat as text
@@ -469,18 +469,14 @@ def _str(self, i, x):
 
         n = self._precision
         dtype = self._dtype[i]
-        if not callable(dtype):
-            dtype = FMT[dtype]
-
         try:
-            try:
-                return dtype(x, n=n)
-            except TypeError:
+            if callable(dtype):
                 return dtype(x)
+            else:
+                return FMT[dtype](x, n=n)
         except FallbackToText:
             return self._fmt_text(x)
 
-
     def _check_row_size(self, array):
         """Check that the specified array fits the previous rows size
         """