On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 04:02:43PM -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote: > On 1/17/06, Adam Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In-favour-of-%2b-ly y'rs, > > > > My only opposition to this is that the byte type may want to use it. > > I'd rather wait until byte is fully defined, implemented, and released > > in a python version before that option is taken away. > > Has this been proposed? What would %b print? > It was proposed in this or another thread about the same in the last few days (gmane search doesn't like the % in '%b').
The suggestion is to add 'b' as a sprintf-like format string %[<base>][.<pad>]b Where the optional <base> is the base to print in and <pad> is the optional minimum length of chars to print (as I recall). Default is base 2. Me? I like it. -Jack _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
