[Python-3000] [Fwd: Re: PEP 3101 str.format() equivalent of '%#o/x/X'?]

[Barry Warsaw]

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[Thanks Eric Smith for pinging me on this one - BAW]

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> Subject: Re: [Python-3000] PEP 3101 str.format() equivalent of '%#o/ 
> x/X'?
> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:14:18 -0700
> From: Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>
> To: Eric Smith <eric+python-dev at trueblade.com>
> CC: python-3000 at python.org
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> I'd check with Barry, but given that .format() is a new feature in
> these releases anyway and this is a pretty small addition to one tiny
> bit of code I would have been okay with it if I were release manager.

> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Eric Smith
> <eric+python-dev at trueblade.com> wrote:
>> I finally have some cycles for this.  Is it okay to add '#' to hex,  
>> bin, and
>> oct for str.format(), even though it's now after the beta?

>>>>>> I didn't say I would, I said I would if a decision was  
>>>>>> reached :)  I'd
>>>>>> like
>>>>>> to see some more consensus, and I hope that Talin (the PEP  
>>>>>> author)
>>>>>> chimes
>>>>>> in.

I agree with Guido; this change is fine to make.

Thanks,
- -Barry

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