[Python-3000] PEP 3101 clarification requests

[Greg Ewing]

Eric Smith wrote:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
> 
> > Why? The conversion code can just generate !s:-20 instead of :-20s.
>  
> 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?

Please, no! While the converter may be able to handle
it, "!s:-20" is terribly ugly for humans.

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Greg