[Python-3000] Fwd: UPDATED: PEP 3138- String representation in Python 3000

[Atsuo Ishimoto]

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 7:30 AM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
>> Atsuo Ishimoto wrote:
>>
>>> I'm not comfortable with "printable", too. Is "legible" better? This
>>> is first time for me to see this word in my life :).
>>
>> The term "printable" has a long history in computing of
>> meaning that a character code corresponds to some visual
>> glyph, even if the display process involved isn't literally
>> printing. It would be confusing to replace it with something
>> else now, I think.
>
> Agreed. I'm +1 on everything the PEP specifies. I'll accept it
> tomorrow. Other developers, please review Atsuo's patch in
> http://bugs.python.org/issue2630 .
>


Thank you!

Mark Summerfield suggested to add "!a" conversion flag to the
str.format() method. I'll add  the conversion flag to the patch and
PEP later today.