[Python-3000] More PEP 3101 changes incoming

[Ron Adam]

Greg Ewing wrote:
> Ron Adam wrote:
>> Truncating behavior is 
>> explicitly specified by giving a max_width size without a replacement 
>> character.
> 
> I think that would be an extremely bad default for numbers.

It's *not* a default.  The default is to have no max_width.


>  > I believe they will learn fairly quickly what not to do.
> 
> Even if that's true, why make the behaviour that's desirable
> in the vast majority of cases more difficult to specify?
> 
> --
> Greg
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