[Python-3000] More PEP 3101 changes incoming

[Greg Ewing]

Nick Coghlan wrote:
> If __format__ receives both the alignment specifier and the format 
> specifier as arguments,

My suggestion would be for it to receive the alignment
spec pre-parsed, since apply_format has to at least
partially parse it itself, and there doesn't seem to
be anything gained by having *both* the format and
alignment specs arbitrary, as anything type-specific
can go in the format spec. So the alignment spec
might as well have a fixed syntax.

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Greg