On 4/22/06, Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Talin wrote:
> > 2) Otherwise, see if the value to be formatted has a __format__ method. If
> > it does, then call it.
> So an object can override standard parsing like {0:d} to return something
> other than an integer? *shudder*
There are several unicode characters which serve as digits in other
scripts. Even given that {0:d} means the string representing this
integer in base 10, that may not specify the exact characters to
return.
This doesn't make it less scary, but it is a valid use case, if
parsing can be overridden.
-jJ
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