On 8/20/07, Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eric Smith wrote: > > Guido van Rossum wrote: > > > > > Why? The conversion code can just generate !s:-20 instead of :-20s. > > > > 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? > > Please, no! While the converter may be able to handle > it, "!s:-20" is terribly ugly for humans.
But how often will you need this? (You only need the !s part if you don't know that the argument is a string.) The alternative would require every type's formatter to interpret -20s the same way, which goes against the idea that the conversion mini-language is an object's own business. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
