[Python-3000] PEP 3101 clarification requests
Eric Smith
eric+python-dev at trueblade.com
Mon Aug 20 21:46:41 CEST 2007
Guido van Rossum wrote:
>> Converting to strings doesn't really buy you much, since we have the !s
>> specifier. But I think it's needed for backward compatibility with %
>> formatting.
>
> Why? The conversion code can just generate !s:-20 instead of :-20s.
True enough. I'll take it out, too.
Talin: On your list of to-do items for the PEP, could you add that the
only conversions for the standard conversion specifiers are int <-> float?
Thanks.
Eric.
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