[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r61403 - python/trunk/Misc/NEWS

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    Nick> %f makes me think femtoseconds :)

Not fraction?

    Nick> Any particular reason we can't use '%u' to align with the
    Nick> convention of abbreviating microseconds as 'us' when a character
    Nick> encoding doesn't provide convenient access to the Greek letter mu?
    Nick> (e.g. ASCII)

Well, %u is already in use by at least some implementations of strftime.
>From the Solaris 10 man page:

     %u       Weekday  as  a  decimal  number   [1,7],   with   1
              representing Monday. See NOTES below.

I see the same on my Mac.

I think it's better to use the same format code for both parsing and
formatting if possible.

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