[Python-3000] Format specifier proposal

[Jim Jewett]

On 8/14/07, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

> ... {foo!r} rather than {foo:!r}

> But either way, I suspect I'll find it difficult
> to avoid writing it as {foo:r} in the heat of the
> moment.

Me too.

And I don't like using up the "!" character.  I know that it is still
available outside of strings, but ... it is one more character that
python used to leave for other tools.  Giving a meaning to "@" mostly
went OK, but ...