Greg Ewing wrote:
> 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")
What I was thinking of was just a simple left to right evaluation order.
"{0:spec1, spec2, ... }".format(x)
I don't expect this will ever get very long.
> 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.
So in this case all you would need is...
{0:%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S,<20}
> (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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