[Python-3000] Format specifier proposal

[Greg Ewing]

Andrew James Wade wrote:
> {1:!renewal date: %Y-%m-%d} # no special meaning for ! here.

Yuck. Although it might happen to work due to reuse of
strftime, I'd consider that bad style -- constant parts
of the output string should be outside of the format
specs, i.e.:

   "renewal date: {1:%Y-%m-%d}".format(my_date)

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