[Python-3000] More PEP 3101 changes incoming
Guido van Rossum
guido at python.org
Thu Aug 2 21:47:09 CEST 2007
On 8/2/07, Joel Bender <jjb5 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> > My personal suggestion is to stay close to the .NET formatting language
>
> If Microsoft formatting ideas are going to be used, why not use the
> Excel language? In my mind it's not any worse than any other string of
> characters with special meanings. It's widely understood (mostly),
> clearly documented (kinda), and I think the date and time formatting is
> clearer than strftime.
>
> I would expect [Red] to be omitted.
You may be overestimating how widely it understood it is. I betcha
that most Python programmers have never heard of it. I certainly have
no idea what the Excel language is (and I've had Excel on my various
laptops for about a decade).
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