27 Apr
2009
27 Apr
'09
3:05 p.m.
I couldn't figure out a way to get rid of it short of multi-#including "templates" and playing with the C preprocessor, however, and have the nagging feeling the latter would be frowned upon by the maintainers.
Not sure if this is exactly what you mean, but look at Objects/stringlib. str.format() and unicode.format() share the same implementation, using stringdefs.h and unicodedefs.h. Eric.