I'm working on issue 2416, adding %b to % formatting (http://bugs.python.org/issue2416). It's really quite a pain, especially in 2.6 with int and long and str and unicode.
I'm contemplating just making % formatting compute a new format string and call str.format (or obj.__format__, or something appropriate). But before I proceed, I thought I'd ask and see if this really offends anyone. By implementing % in terms of str.format, I hope to be able to delete a lot of the duplication in the formatting code, but I haven't checked yet to see what's possible. The real impetus is issue 2416, though. About the only downside I see is that str.format is somewhat slower than %, but I can probably get around most of this by directly calling int.__format__, float.__format__, etc. Other than misleading microbenchmarks, I've never really compared the difference, though. _______________________________________________ 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
