Guido van Rossum wrote: >> Converting to strings doesn't really buy you much, since we have the !s >> specifier. But I think it's needed for backward compatibility with % >> formatting. > > Why? The conversion code can just generate !s:-20 instead of :-20s.
True enough. I'll take it out, too. Talin: On your list of to-do items for the PEP, could you add that the only conversions for the standard conversion specifiers are int <-> float? Thanks. Eric. _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
