[Python-3000] unit test for advanced formatting

[Greg Ewing]

Talin wrote:

> A typical example of what I am talking about here is something like a 
> web application server, where you have a "development" mode and a 
> "production" mode. In the development mode, you want to find errors as 
> quickly as possible, so you enable strict formatting. In production, 
> however, you want the server to be as fault-tolerant as possible, so you 
> would enable lenient mode.

This seems misguided. There's a difference between being
fault-tolerant and being bug-tolerant. I don't think that
ignoring symptoms of bugs and going on to produce incorrect
results is any more acceptable in a production web server
as it would be in any other environment.

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Greg