Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On 8/13/07, Andrew James Wade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:53:26 -0700
>>"Guido van Rossum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>I propose that their
>>>__format__ be defined like this:
>>>
>>> def __format__(self, spec):
>>> return self.strftime(spec)
>>
>>You loose the ability to align the field then.
This might be a use case for the chaining of format specs
that Ron mentioned. Suppose you could do
"{{1:spec1}:spec2}".format(x)
which would be equivalent to
format(format(x, "spec1"), "spec2")
then you could do
"{{1:%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S}:<20}".format(my_date)
and get your date left-aligned in a 20-wide field.
(BTW, I'm not sure about using strftime-style formats
as-is, since the % chars look out of place in our new
format syntax.)
--
Greg
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